As a result of his farming misfortunes, and Meantime formed an irregular intimacy with Jean Armour, for which he wasĬensured by the Kirk-session. Of Mossgiel but this venture was as unsuccessful as the others. Hisįather died in 1784, and with his brother Gilbert the poet rented the farm The formation of an acquaintance with a dissipated sailor, whom heĪfterward blamed as the prompter of his first licentious adventures. The only result of this experiment, however, was In 1771 theįamily move to Lochlea, and Burns went to the neighboring town of Irvine In taking his share in the effort to make this undertaking succeed, theįuture poet seems to have seriously overstrained his physique. William Burness rented on borrowed money the farm of Mount Oliphant, and Of English literature from the time of Shakespeare to his own day. Knowledge of French, and a fairly wide acquaintance with the masterpieces That he had reached manhood he had a good knowledge of English, a reading That he owed the more important part of his education and by the time But it was to his father and to his own reading Neighboring village, and later, for shorter periods, to three other Robert, who was the eldest, went to school for three years in a His father, though alwaysĮxtremely poor, attempted to give his children a fair education, and Nurseryman on the banks of the Doon in Ayrshire.

The son of William Burnes, or Burness, at the time of the poet's birth a Robert Burns was born near Ayr, Scotland, 25th of January, 1759.

Poems and songs by robert burns