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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Robert Burns(1759-1796)“A Man’s a Man for A’ That”“Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn” William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Biography of Burns(1759-1796) Family: son of a poor Scottish peasant. Education: 2.5 years of regular schooling; familiar with the old Scottish songs ad ballads. Experience: full peasant labor at 13; bankruptcy of the family farm in 1786; selling his poems to finance his emigration abroad; an immediate success; retreating from Edinburg to the soil. Death: he died in poor health. Works 3 groups: Love and friendship. They rank among the best lyrics of such theme in the world. Scottish life, the rural life of the peasants. Poems inspired by French revolution. Position and achievements National poet of Scotland. He used a tradition of Scottish folk songs and ballads as the basis of his lyric poems. He drew material from the folk legends in Scottish past and present. Ploughman poet. Close to nature, he depicted nature with a language distinct for its simplicity and precision of imager. Questions for the selected poems What should be the true value of a man in “A man’s a man for a’ that” according to Burns? What is the most striking spirit in “Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn”? What does “red rose” normally stand for? Is red rose temporary or permanent? How did Burns transform its nature to impart his love the red rose symbolize with eternity? Romanticism in England(1798-1832) Romanticism is a general, collective term to describe much of the art and literature produced during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. During this period there was a broad shift of emphasis in the arts, away from the structured, intellectual, reasoned approach of the 18th century (the ‘Age of Reason’, or the ‘Enlightenment’) towards ways of looking at the world which recognised the importance of the emotions and the imagination. Background—the age of revolution Industrial revolution. Influence of French Revolution Polarizing