Robert Burns' birthday, January 25, is traditionally celebrated across the world with Burns Suppers. One of the most famous love songs associated with Robert Burns, 'My Luve's like a Red, Red Rose' was composed prior to 1794 when it appeared in a collection by an Edinburgh composer named. My heart 's in the Highlands, my heart is not here My heart 's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer. Hi poetic style is marked by spontaneity, directness and sincerity with injections of humour and tender intensity which had a great influence on Romantic poets such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridgeand Percy Bysshe Shelley. Celebrating the Scots dialect in his writing, Burns was celebrated as a pioneer of the Romantic movement and became renowned for collecting and adapting traditional Scottish folk songs. It was first published in 1794 in a collection of traditional Scottish songs set to music. Brinkler, Alfred and Burns, Robert, A red, red, rose (9999). Robert Burns’s 1794 poem A Red, Red Rose is on its face a simple love poem of a speakers declaring eternal commitment to his lover.

As Burns Night approaches we thought no better time to start celebrating than with our weekly Featured Poem, My love is like a red, red rose by Robert Burns.īorn in 1759, Robert 'Rabby' Burnsis perhaps Scotland's most famous poet and lyricist. A Red, Red Rose is a poem composed by Scotlands national poet, Robert Burns.

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