# Robert Burns

> He wrote in a language most of the world didn't speak, died at 37, and became Scotland's secular saint - the poet whose work gets sung drunk at midnight on New Year's Eve and whose birthday is a global excuse to eat haggis and raise a glass.

*Scottish poet and lyricist (1759-1796)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Born:** 1759-01-25
- **Died:** 1796-07-21
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Robert Burns was born in January 1759 in Scotland and spent his short life writing in Scots, light Scots dialect, and standard English - the last being where his sharpest political edges showed. He composed original work and collected folk songs across Scotland, revising them as he went, and in the 1780s and 1790s produced the pieces that would outlive him: "To a Mouse" in 1785, "Auld Lang Syne" in 1788, "Tam o' Shanter" in 1790, "A Red, Red Rose" in 1794. He died in July 1796, but what followed was stranger than fame - he became a founding ghost for liberalism and socialism, a cultural icon in the Scottish diaspora, and the center of something close to a national cult through the 19th and 20th centuries. In 2009, more than two centuries after his death, a public vote named him the greatest Scot.

## Fame
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- **Source confidence:** 70.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 80.0 / 100

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