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Robert Burns, painting by Alexander Nasmyth, 1787 https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/05/26/robert-burns-painting-by-alexander-nasmyth-1787/ #hermeneuticon #iconomancy #RobertBurns -
Narrative Poems: ‘Tam o’ Shanter’ by Robert Burns & ‘Peter Grimes’ by George Crabbe
In this extract from the LRB Podcast, Seamus Perry, Mark Ford & Andrew O’Hagan discuss the moral & stylistic turns of ‘Tam o’ Shanter’, its influence on Wordsworth & Coleridge, & what it owes to the Augustan perfectionism of Pope. They also examine a much darker example of Romantic narrative poetry: George Crabbe’s ‘Peter Grimes’
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💅 Thursday commute check: roads are wet, lanes are tight, and the Glenn is doing its usual “why is everyone braking at the same time” performance. If you know, you know. If you don’t, tap in and find out.
🚗🌧️ Cones are out, crews are working, and patience is the real traction control today.Tap Memaw’s 💅 nails for the full breakdown: https://shorturl.at/6TRVR
#ParksHighway #SewardHighway #SterlingHighway #GlennHighway #KnikGooseBayRd #MemawsCommute #Alaska #Traffic #Weather #Travel #RobertBurns
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💅 Thursday commute check: roads are wet, lanes are tight, and the Glenn is doing its usual “why is everyone braking at the same time” performance. If you know, you know. If you don’t, tap in and find out.
🚗🌧️ Cones are out, crews are working, and patience is the real traction control today.Tap Memaw’s 💅 nails for the full breakdown: https://shorturl.at/6TRVR
#ParksHighway #SewardHighway #SterlingHighway #GlennHighway #KnikGooseBayRd #MemawsCommute #Alaska #Traffic #Weather #Travel #RobertBurns
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💅 Thursday commute check: roads are wet, lanes are tight, and the Glenn is doing its usual “why is everyone braking at the same time” performance. If you know, you know. If you don’t, tap in and find out.
🚗🌧️ Cones are out, crews are working, and patience is the real traction control today.Tap Memaw’s 💅 nails for the full breakdown: https://shorturl.at/6TRVR
#ParksHighway #SewardHighway #SterlingHighway #GlennHighway #KnikGooseBayRd #MemawsCommute #Alaska #Traffic #Weather #Travel #RobertBurns
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“Morgan McSweeney says he doesn't recognise claims about his behaviour.” O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion #MorganMcSweeney #RobertBurns -
“William Shakespeare was a powerful influence on Robert Burns… I count as many as 16 references to Shakespeare’s plays in his poetry”
—Prof Gerard Carruthers on the links & commonalities between Robert Burns & William Shakespeare
#Scottish #literature #poetry #drama #RobertBurns #18thcentury #romanticism #Shakespeare #ShakespeareDay
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/847974/ Reform UK Scotland leader apologises over homophobic joke about George Michael #Britain #BurnsNight #GeorgeMichael #GreatBritain #LoveAndRomance #NigelFarage #RobertBurns #Scotland #ScottishNationalParty #UK #UnitedKingdom
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How Burns Suppers Became a Global Phenomenon
What if the traditional Burns Night could fuse cultures & challenge traditions? Dr Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman from the University of Glasgow reveals how this centuries-old tribute to Scotland’s national poet is transforming around the world
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How Burns Suppers Became a Global Phenomenon
What if the traditional Burns Night could fuse cultures & challenge traditions? Dr Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman from the University of Glasgow reveals how this centuries-old tribute to Scotland’s national poet is transforming around the world
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How Burns Suppers Became a Global Phenomenon
What if the traditional Burns Night could fuse cultures & challenge traditions? Dr Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman from the University of Glasgow reveals how this centuries-old tribute to Scotland’s national poet is transforming around the world
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How Burns Suppers Became a Global Phenomenon
What if the traditional Burns Night could fuse cultures & challenge traditions? Dr Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman from the University of Glasgow reveals how this centuries-old tribute to Scotland’s national poet is transforming around the world
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How Burns Suppers Became a Global Phenomenon
What if the traditional Burns Night could fuse cultures & challenge traditions? Dr Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman from the University of Glasgow reveals how this centuries-old tribute to Scotland’s national poet is transforming around the world
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The view north-west along the River Doon from the Brig o' Doon in Alloway, Ayrshire, a village best known as the birthplace of Robert Burns. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/alloway/alloway/index.html
#Scotland #Alloway #RiverDoon #Ayrshire #RobertBurns #BrigODoon
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The view north-west along the River Doon from the Brig o' Doon in Alloway, Ayrshire, a village best known as the birthplace of Robert Burns. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/alloway/alloway/index.html
#Scotland #Alloway #RiverDoon #Ayrshire #RobertBurns #BrigODoon
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The view north-west along the River Doon from the Brig o' Doon in Alloway, Ayrshire, a village best known as the birthplace of Robert Burns. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/alloway/alloway/index.html
#Scotland #Alloway #RiverDoon #Ayrshire #RobertBurns #BrigODoon
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The view north-west along the River Doon from the Brig o' Doon in Alloway, Ayrshire, a village best known as the birthplace of Robert Burns. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/alloway/alloway/index.html
#Scotland #Alloway #RiverDoon #Ayrshire #RobertBurns #BrigODoon
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The view north-west along the River Doon from the Brig o' Doon in Alloway, Ayrshire, a village best known as the birthplace of Robert Burns. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/alloway/alloway/index.html
#Scotland #Alloway #RiverDoon #Ayrshire #RobertBurns #BrigODoon
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After etching the above poem with his diamond-tipped pen, Robert Burns – possibly sobering up – worried about the possible political fallout. He returned to the inn & broke the window, but was too late: some clype had copied it down & published it.
https://burnsmuseum.wordpress.com/2018/08/24/graffiti-artist/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #satire #RobertBurns #graffiti
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Here Stewarts once in triumph reign’d,
And laws for Scotland’s weal ordain’ d;
But now unroof’d their Palace stands,
Their Sceptre’s fall’n to other hands;
Fall’n indeed, and to the Earth
Whence grovelling reptiles take their birth…—Robert Burns, “Lines etched on a window at Wingate’s Inn, Stirling, 26 August 1787”
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #satire #RobertBurns #graffiti
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Robert Burns & the How-to of Barrel Gauging
“Alongside the expansion of the state in this period, scientific advances greatly enhanced methods for measuring and taxing goods, and in turn required officials proficient in these complex practices.”
James Fox looks at Robert Burns’s own copy of The Excise Officer’s Pocket Companion
https://howtobook.hypotheses.org/5697
#Scottish #literature #history #RobertBurns #18thcentury #BookHistory #HistoryofScience #HistoryofMathematics
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You can't import it or cook it. Why a traditional Scottish dish is banned in America
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‘[Muriel Spark] observes … “Some of [Burns’s] most successful love songs present the girl’s point of view” … citing the bawdy verse “Wha’ll mow me now”, she comments drily: “If this is difficult to decipher, a little imagination will serve the purpose”’
10/18
https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-authors/muriel-spark-burns-bright-on-burns-night#Scottish #literature #MurielSpark #20thCentury #WomenWriters #RobertBurns
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It's a bit tardy, but with so many Burns Suppers still to be had this year, let this whet your whistle for whisky and haggis.
A wee tale of the Bard as an Exciseman, and a reminder he was at heart a radical.#RobertBurns #Burnsnight #burnssupper #history #Scotland #Galloway #France
https://gallowaydistillery.com/blogs/galloway-tales/the-deil-the-exciseman-and-the-french-revolution
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It's a bit tardy, but with so many Burns Suppers still to be had this year, let this whet your whistle for whisky and haggis.
A wee tale of the Bard as an Exciseman, and a reminder he was at heart a radical.#RobertBurns #Burnsnight #burnssupper #history #Scotland #Galloway #France
https://gallowaydistillery.com/blogs/galloway-tales/the-deil-the-exciseman-and-the-french-revolution
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It's a bit tardy, but with so many Burns Suppers still to be had this year, let this whet your whistle for whisky and haggis.
A wee tale of the Bard as an Exciseman, and a reminder he was at heart a radical.#RobertBurns #Burnsnight #burnssupper #history #Scotland #Galloway #France
https://gallowaydistillery.com/blogs/galloway-tales/the-deil-the-exciseman-and-the-french-revolution
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It's a bit tardy, but with so many Burns Suppers still to be had this year, let this whet your whistle for whisky and haggis.
A wee tale of the Bard as an Exciseman, and a reminder he was at heart a radical.#RobertBurns #Burnsnight #burnssupper #history #Scotland #Galloway #France
https://gallowaydistillery.com/blogs/galloway-tales/the-deil-the-exciseman-and-the-french-revolution
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It's a bit tardy, but with so many Burns Suppers still to be had this year, let this whet your whistle for whisky and haggis.
A wee tale of the Bard as an Exciseman, and a reminder he was at heart a radical.#RobertBurns #Burnsnight #burnssupper #history #Scotland #Galloway #France
https://gallowaydistillery.com/blogs/galloway-tales/the-deil-the-exciseman-and-the-french-revolution
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Ouch... " ...thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed... " this must be the worst ever insult to a Scot from a fellow Scot... 😊
#robertBurns #Scotland #scottish -
My 2001 cartoon for Burn’s night. Truly a man for all ages. I was surprised to find that Woodie Guthrie was a fan. And also Maya Angelou. I shouldn’t have been. https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/cuddy/
#Rabbie #RobertBurns #haggis #BurnsNight -
My 2001 cartoon for Burn’s night. Truly a man for all ages. I was surprised to find that Woodie Guthrie was a fan. And also Maya Angelou. I shouldn’t have been. https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/cuddy/
#Rabbie #RobertBurns #haggis #BurnsNight -
My 2001 cartoon for Burn’s night. Truly a man for all ages. I was surprised to find that Woodie Guthrie was a fan. And also Maya Angelou. I shouldn’t have been. https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/cuddy/
#Rabbie #RobertBurns #haggis #BurnsNight -
My 2001 cartoon for Burn’s night. Truly a man for all ages. I was surprised to find that Woodie Guthrie was a fan. And also Maya Angelou. I shouldn’t have been. https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/cuddy/
#Rabbie #RobertBurns #haggis #BurnsNight -
My 2001 cartoon for Burn’s night. Truly a man for all ages. I was surprised to find that Woodie Guthrie was a fan. And also Maya Angelou. I shouldn’t have been. https://stooryduster.co.uk/scottish-word/cuddy/
#Rabbie #RobertBurns #haggis #BurnsNight -
Tam O'Shanter Brought To You By James Cosmo Storyman
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On January 25, 1759: #RobertBurns, Scottish #poet (Auld Lang Syne) considered the national poet of Scotland, born in Alloway, Scotland (d. 1796).
#HappyBirthday #RIP 🪦 -
Grant me, indulgent Heaven, that I may live,
To see the miscreants feel the pains they give;
Deal Freedom’s sacred treasures free as air,
Till Slave and Despot be but things that were.—Robert Burns, “Lines Inscribed in a Lady’s Pocket Almanac”
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #BurnsNight #poem #poetry #18thcentury #liberty #justice #freedom
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I've saved up all the Dolly Parton 80th birthday shows and am interspersing watching them around the Burns stuff. Great combo. Words n music. Bards with a sense of fun and humanity 📖🎵
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Burns Night 2026 - BBC iPlayer
"Marti Pellow and an incredible line-up of artists join the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to honour Scotland’s national bard. Callum Beattie, Paige Turley, Lucia Fairfull, Cammy Barnes, Pippa Blundell, James Emmanuel and Roisin McCarney will all perform Burns classics. Plus a live recital from Kirsty Wark and a commanding Immortal Memory delivered by Grant Stott."https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002qmzd/burns-night-2026
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A Robert Burns song for Burns Night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaAYYkca50s&list=RDRaAYYkca50s&start_radio=1
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BBC News: Lost Robert Burns portrait discovered after 200 years
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Ellisland, 1791
Dear Sir:
Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution; thou marriage-maker between vowels and consonants, on the Gretna-green of caprice…
—Robert Burns, Letter to a critic
via @lettersofnotehttps://news.lettersofnote.com/p/thou-pickle-herring-in-the-puppet
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #BurnsNight #18thcentury #LettersofNote #correspondence #letters #critics #insults
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Ellisland, 1791
Dear Sir:
Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution; thou marriage-maker between vowels and consonants, on the Gretna-green of caprice…
—Robert Burns, Letter to a critic
via @lettersofnotehttps://news.lettersofnote.com/p/thou-pickle-herring-in-the-puppet
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #BurnsNight #18thcentury #LettersofNote #correspondence #letters #critics #insults
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Ellisland, 1791
Dear Sir:
Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution; thou marriage-maker between vowels and consonants, on the Gretna-green of caprice…
—Robert Burns, Letter to a critic
via @lettersofnotehttps://news.lettersofnote.com/p/thou-pickle-herring-in-the-puppet
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #BurnsNight #18thcentury #LettersofNote #correspondence #letters #critics #insults
