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9
UNIT II
ROBERT BURNS
(1759 -1796)
Vocabulary notes
cotter - шотл.батрак
Ayrshire - Эршир
voraciously - жадно
epistle - шутл.послание
gregarious - компанейский
Auld Lang Syne - Былые дни
luve = love
ye = you
brae - крутой берег реки
the Borders - граница между Англией и Шотландией
Pre - reading Task
Before reading the text answer the following questios:
What is Robert Burns famous for?
Do you know any of his well-known sonnets and poems?
ROBERT BURNS
Robert Burns was one of seven children born to a cotter near Alloway in
Ayrishire.His father moved his family from one unprofitable ferm to another, but he
was determined that his sons should be well educated.At various schools Robert was
given a through grounding in English, including classic authors from Shakespeare
onwards, and a knowledge of French and mathematics.He read voraciously for himself,
and began to write occasional verses when he was still at school.His spare time was
fully employed on the farm as labourer and ploughman.The experience of poverty and
injustice as a youth no doubt increased his belief in the equality of men, which led him
to become an ardent supporter of the early days of the French Revolution.After his
father’s death in 1784 he and his brother Gilbert continued to farm, now at Mauchline,
which is often mentioned in the poems.To this period at Mossgel belong ‘The Cotter’s
Saturday Night’,To a Mouse’, ‘To a Mountain Daisy’, ‘Holy Willie’s Prayer’, ‘The
Epistles to Labraik’, ‘ The Holy Fair’, and many others.He was much influenced at this
time by Mackenzie’s novel The Man of Feeling, a book he loved ‘next to the Bible’.In
1785 he met Jean Armour, who was eventually to become his wife, but continued his
long series of entanglements with women, many of whom are mentioned in his poems
(for instance, Alison Begbie as ‘Mary Morison’,Mary Campbell in ‘To Mary in
Heaven’).
In this and the following year he wrote prolofocally, but his problems, both
financialand domestic, became so acute that he thought of emigratind to
Jamaica.However he sent his poems to a publisher in Kilmarnock, and , when Poems,
chiefly in the Scottish Dialect appeared in 1786 it was an immediate success.Burns
found himself feted by the literary and aristocratic society of Edinburgh, not only for
his poetic skills but because he appeared, in Mackenzie’s words as ‘a Heaventaught 
                                           9
UNIT II
                                 ROBERT BURNS
                                   (1759 -1796)
Vocabulary notes
cotter - шотл.батрак
Ayrshire - Эршир
voraciously - жадно
epistle - шутл.послание
gregarious - компанейский
Auld Lang Syne - Былые дни
luve = love
ye = you
brae - крутой берег реки
the Borders - граница между Англией и Шотландией
Pre - reading Task
Before reading the text answer the following questios:
What is Robert Burns famous for?
Do you know any of his well-known sonnets and poems?

ROBERT BURNS
   Robert Burns was one of seven children born to a cotter near Alloway in
Ayrishire.His father moved his family from one unprofitable ferm to another, but he
was determined that his sons should be well educated.At various schools Robert was
given a through grounding in English, including classic authors from Shakespeare
onwards, and a knowledge of French and mathematics.He read voraciously for himself,
and began to write occasional verses when he was still at school.His spare time was
fully employed on the farm as labourer and ploughman.The experience of poverty and
injustice as a youth no doubt increased his belief in the equality of men, which led him
to become an ardent supporter of the early days of the French Revolution.After his
father’s death in 1784 he and his brother Gilbert continued to farm, now at Mauchline,
which is often mentioned in the poems.To this period at Mossgel belong ‘The Cotter’s
Saturday Night’,To a Mouse’, ‘To a Mountain Daisy’, ‘Holy Willie’s Prayer’, ‘The
Epistles to Labraik’, ‘ The Holy Fair’, and many others.He was much influenced at this
time by Mackenzie’s novel The Man of Feeling, a book he loved ‘next to the Bible’.In
1785 he met Jean Armour, who was eventually to become his wife, but continued his
long series of entanglements with women, many of whom are mentioned in his poems
(for instance, Alison Begbie as ‘Mary Morison’,Mary Campbell in ‘To Mary in
Heaven’).
   In this and the following year he wrote prolofocally, but his problems, both
financialand domestic, became so acute that he thought of emigratind to
Jamaica.However he sent his poems to a publisher in Kilmarnock, and , when Poems,
chiefly in the Scottish Dialect appeared in 1786 it was an immediate success.Burns
found himself feted by the literary and aristocratic society of Edinburgh, not only for
his poetic skills but because he appeared, in Mackenzie’s words as ‘a Heaventaught

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