Burns uses the prayer to comment on Willie, and people like him. Tam O'Shanter Robert Burns’ most famous narrative poem, this mock-heroic epic details the ghostly adventures of the loveable ...

Although his life was short his poems were published a year before his death and had a significant impact on Robert Burns. Horrified to learn that such a man lay in an unmarked grave, Burns ...

Burns sent the song 'Address to the Woodlark' in a letter to George Thomson in April 1795. In his 1877 edition, The Works of Robert Burns, William Scott Douglas notes the existence of an ...