Robert Burns
perhaps more importantly, the symbol of the regeneration of a nation.
At Mount Oliphant, when he was 15, Robert wrote his first song, Handsome Nell, for
his partner in the fields at harvest time, Nellie Kirkpatrick.
Robert had to work as a flax dresser in Irvine to earn money for family but his real
passion was poetry. At the age of 27 he had 3 children, two of them were twins.
In July of 1786, Burns had succeeded in publishing the first book of his poems, the
"Kilmarnock Edition", which became enormously popular. He decided to move to
Edinburgh where new editions of his poetry were published. He made a number of
tours of Scotland and began collecting traditional Scots songs and tunes for "The
Scots Musical Museum". The gathered many old scotish tunes and songs that could
have been lost otherwise. Even Haydn and Beethoven got inspiration from the songs
he had put down.
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