Robert Burns
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages · author page
Burns
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Poet cited as the foremost self-taught poet of the age.
“The greatest beyond comparison of self-taught poets was Burns (1759-1796).
Law in a Free State
Scottish poet cited as having given voice, in a poem, to the feelings of an elderly woman recalling a lifetime of mutual love.
The mutual love which ends with the life, which is strengthened by time and memories and attachment to the children, and which is sanctified by freedom, is the latest and noblest development of the sexual emotion.