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Burns, Robert

  1. An eighteenth-century Scottish poet known for his poems in Scottish dialect, such as “To a Mouse,” “A Red, Red Rose,” and “ Auld Lang Syne .”


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Notes

Many lines from Burns's poetry have become proverbial: “The best-laid schemes of mice and men / Gang aft a-gley” (often go astray), “A man's a man for a' [all] that.”
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Indeed, it was just last month when more than 2,000 historians – including well known scholars such as Ken Burns, Robert Caro, Ron Chernow, Jon Meacham, Sean Wilentz, and Brenda Wineapple – signed a joint statement describing Trump’s misconduct as “a clear and present danger to the Constitution.”

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As I type, the document has been endorsed by 752 scholars, including a variety of figures well known to the public, including Ken Burns, Robert Caro, Ron Chernow, Jon Meacham, Sean Wilentz, and Brenda Wineapple.

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Burns, Robert, his house at Dumfries, 325-327; his mausoleum, 329, 330; marble statue of, 329; his outward life, 331; his family pew in St. Michael's Church, 334; his farm of Moss Giel, 337-342; his birthplace, 349-351; his monument, 351-353.

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Burns, Robert, his poetry, 291; his career, 292-297; his death, 298, 301; compared with Samuel Rogers, 302, 303.

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BURNS, Robert.—Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect.

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