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Address to a Haggis
Catapulted from the life of a small tenant farmer to the equivalent of a rock star from his first book of poems in July 1876 - titled Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect - published in the sleepy town of Kilmarnock. A single printing of 612 copies had sold out in less than a month.
Who Was Robert Burns?
Burns was well loved by some of the giants of American literature and thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln were all admirers of Burns, as were Robert Frost, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, Mark Twain and John Steinbeck.
What Is A Burns Supper?
A Burns Night supper is a special holiday, a festive secular occasion that serves to commemorate Robert Burns and his genius, but by extension the event turns into a chance to commemorate the struggles, rugged perseverance and humble dignity that people from Scotland have always demonstrated and to take stock in the unique gifts that Scotland and its people have brought to the rest of the world.
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