Respected literary figures like Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott in Scotland both collected and wrote their own ballads, using the form to create an artistic product.

Burns wrote the poem Address to a Haggis, which starts " Fair fa ' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o ' the puddin-race!

Poet Robert Burns in " Here's a Health to them that's awa '" wrote:

Texas composer and singer Brian Burns wrote and recorded a song about the collision, The Crash at Crush, in 2001.

Burns wrote most of the material and played the straight man.

An admirer of Joyce and Pound, MacDiarmid wrote much of his early poetry in anglicised Lowland Scots, a literary dialect which had also been used by Robert Burns.

Robert Burns wrote two poems about Galashiels, " Sae Fair Her Hair " and " Braw Lads ".

" As a staff writer on those programs, Oppenheimer wrote sketch comedy for many Hollywood stars, including Fred Allen, Talullah Bankhead, Charles Boyer, Fanny Brice, George Burns and Gracie Allen, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, William Powell, Ginger Rogers, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, and Spencer Tracy.

Robert Burns wrote Scots Wha Hae on the day Muir's trial started.

But in February 2003, Burns wrote an article in The London Free Press newspaper endorsing the Canadian Alliance and promising that the Ontario party would live on, at least in spirit: " The Ontario Party of Canada will, for the time being, become an ardent advocate for the best interests of Ontarians and comment on national, provincial and municipal matters.

After they wrote episodes such as "$ pringfield ( Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling )", " Bart vs. Australia " and " Who Shot Mr. Burns?

In reference to this, Burns ' brother Gilbert wrote, " This was a delightful family scene for our poet, then lately introduced to the world.

He wrote in the Lowland Scots dialogue made popular by Robert Burns.

He wrote a number of other books, including one on Robert Burns and a seminal biography of the composer Francis George Scott and mid-twentieth century Scottish classical music, entitled Francis George Scott and the Scottish Renaissance ( 1980 ).

However, if Burns was present, he failed to mention it in a letter he wrote on that day or in any of his verse.

Burns wrote " You cannot imagine how much this business of composing for your publication had added to my enjoyments.

John Douglas wrote " Wild Mountainside ", which was recorded by Eddi Reader for her 2003 album Eddi Reader Sings the Songs of Robert Burns.

As well as collecting old songs, Burns wrote new words to old tunes, and many of the songs now attributed to Burns have older roots.

In the early 1970s, Burns wrote for the Canadian Globe and Mail, as a local and later parliamentary reporter.

Supposed financial payoffs to Scottish parliamentarians were later referred to by Robert Burns when he wrote " We're bought and sold for English gold, Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation!

Burnett's friend Robert Burns had a romantic interest in Eliza and wrote a poem, Elegy on the late Miss Burnet of Monboddo, referencing her beauty and which ultimately became her elegy.

Tav Falco's Panther Burns and Alex Chilton helped create new interest in her career in the 1980s when they began covering some of her Moon label's old singles such as " Dateless Night ", a song she originally wrote in the 1950s for Florida artist Allen Page.

He also wrote a poem on Hallowe ' en in 1780 which influenced the bard of Scotland Robert Burns ' 1785 poem Halloween.

`` And your golden god '', said Samuel Burns, `` probably went right home and poured himself into a boiling bath.

Burns himself has been involved with several women and in " A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love ", Smithers is noticeably disgusted when Burns starts looking for a female companion.

Arnold, by contrast, replies that he himself, in conforming to the dictates of society, has become " the best possible Arnold Burns ".

Since Ronnie played himself, Gracie closed the segment with a wisecrack: " The boy was produced by Burns and Allen.

The fictional Five Towns series is produced by actor / screenwriter / producer Ed Burns ( who plays himself on Entourage ), who grew up in the Hewlett area and attended Hewlett High School.

* Robert B. Burns considers that self-esteem is a collection of the individual's attitudes toward himself.

Holden shares a fantasy he has been thinking about ( based on a mishearing of Robert Burns ' Comin ' Through the Rye ): he pictures himself as the sole guardian of a group of children running and playing in a huge rye field on the edge of a cliff.

* Ken Burns ' Jazz ( 2000 ), as himself ( Dir.

At first, Mr. Burns is overjoyed to have a son and tries to shape Larry after himself.

* George Burns Comedy Week ( 1985 ) himself

While Burns attempted to link Schweitzer with presidential candidate Al Gore, whom Schweitzer never met, Schweitzer " effectively portrayed himself as nonpolitical ".

A number of the songs were written or adapted by Robert Burns and scholars speculate as to how many of them were authored or at least substantially altered by Hogg himself.

Sainz failed to score a victory on any rally during the 2001 season, but with five podiums and four other point-scoring finishes, he managed to keep himself in the title fight throughout the very closely contested season, eventually finishing sixth in the standings, only eleven points adrift of the champion, Subaru's Richard Burns.

# The Simpsons – Cuban voiced himself in the episode " The Burns and the Bees ".

* Maxwell House Coffee Time ( aka The Burns And Allen Show ) — " Gracie Sends Sam Spade To Jail " ( February 10, 1949 NBC ) a 30-minute episode starring Howard Duff-both as himself and as Sam Spade.

'" Burns himself stated, tongue-in-cheek, " I knew I wasn't gonna be doing children's television all my life, mostly because I refused to lose my hair on a kid's TV show, and it was happenin ' — fast.

Burns himself stated, " I knew I wasn't gonna be doing children's television all my life, mostly because I refused to lose my hair on a kid's TV show, and it was happenin ' — fast.

Eve Arden, Desi Arnaz, Fred Berry, Joan Blondell, George Burns ( as himself ), Ruth Buzzi ( as Chloe Beesmeyer, Henry's wife ), Robert Goulet, Joel Grey ( as himself ), Eileen Heckart ( as Rose Hyatt, Alice's interfering mother in-law ), Florence Henderson, Jay Leno, Nancy McKeon ( Philip's sister, appeared twice in different roles ), Frank Nelson, Donald O ' Conner ( as himself ), Jerry Reed, Debbie Reynolds, Telly Savalas ( as himself ), and Jerry Stiller.

In 1786, Robert Burns used the proceeds from his Kilmarnock Edition to book passage from Greenock to Jamaica, in the hope of making a better life for himself abroad.