Outstanding figures in British literature
He is the best known of the poets who have written in Scottish
Grew up in poverty and hardship
Made compositions and collected folk songs from across Scotland
His song Auld Lang Syne is often sung at Hogmanay (the last day of
the year), and Scots Wha Hae served for a long time as an unofficial
national anthem of the country.
Other poems and songs of Burns that remain wellknown across the
world today, include A Red, Red Rose, A Man's A Man for A' That, Ae
Fond Kiss and Tam o' Shanter.
Lord Byron
1788 1824
One of the greatest British poets and a leading figure in the romantic
movement, he remains widely read and influential
His bestknown works are the lengthy narrative poems ,,Don Juan" and
,,Childe Harold's Pilgrimage "and the short lyric "She Walks in Beauty".
He travelled to fight the Ottomans in the Greek War of Independence, for
which Greeks revere him as a national hero
died at 36 years in Greece
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