On January 25, the birthday of its national poet, Scotland celebrates Burns Night with a traditional Scottish meal washed down with a warming dram of whisky ...

Robert Burns became a Freemason in the Tarbolton ... Yesterday we commemorated the American Revolution so here a day late is a poem full of Masonic references and symbols composed when the poet ...

One evening in the spring of 1785, Burns and his brother, Gilbert, attended a Masonic meeting in Tarbolton ... as he was draining a field. In the poem, Death has time to sit and gossip with ...

Here are 10 facts you need to know about Robert Burns ... Steinbeck’s 1937 novel 'Of Mice and Men' from his poem 'To a Mouse'. Burns's poem Comin’ Thro’ the Rye also inspired J.D. Salinger ...