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.

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

Burns wrote of himself in 1787, " The appellation of a Scotch Bard, is by far my highest pride ; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.

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.

The haggis is a traditional Scottish dish, considered the national dish of Scotland as a result of Robert Burns ' poem Address to a Haggis of 1787.

Recitation of the poem Address to a Haggis by Robert Burns is an important part of the Burns supper

" Auld Lang Syne " is a traditional poem reinterpreted by Robert Burns, which was later set to music.

When Burns noticed a print illustrating the poem " The Justice of the Peace " and asked who had written the poem, only Scott knew that it was by John Langhorne, and was thanked by Burns.

* Robert Burns ' version of the Scots poem Auld Lang Syne is first published, in this year's volume of The Scots Musical Museum.

More orgiastic witches ' meetings are also depicted in Robert Burns ' poem " Tam o ' Shanter " and in Goethe's play Faust.

( Turnbull includes notes that explain nine references to Burns ' life in the poem.

" Scots Wha Hae " is the title of a patriotic poem by Robert Burns.

* Robert Burns published a brief irreverent poem, On A Celebrated Ruling Elder, as an elegy for a Scottish Presbyterian.

Located on a plateau on the eastern bank of the Rock River, the city was named after the River Doon, made famous as the subject of Robert Burns ' poem, Ye Banks and Braes o ' Bonnie Doon.

Robert Burns acknowledged his debt to Harry, incorporating the following lines from Harry's Wallace in his own poem Robert Bruce's Address to his Army at Bannockburn ( Scots, wha hae wi ' Wallace bled ):

Miller is remembered today, among other reasons, for lines from his poem in honor of " Burns and Byron ":

Hogg first became familiar with the work of the recently deceased Robert Burns in 1797, after having the poem Tam o ' Shanter read to him.

The club nickname, The Blasties, derives from a Robert Burns poem, The Inventory, written in 1786.

The bard of Scotland Robert Burns ' 1785 poem Halloween is recited by Scots at Halloween, and Burns was influenced by Mayne's composition.

It is best known as the birthplace of Robert Burns and the setting for his poem " Tam o ' Shanter ".

" To A Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady's Bonnet at Church " is a 1786 Scots language poem by Robert Burns in his favourite meter, Standard Habbie.

#: Shostakovich quotes his setting of the Robert Burns poem " MacPhersen Before His Execution " to colour Yevtushenko's imagery of the spirit of mockery, endlessly murdered and endlessly resurrected, denouncing the vain attempts of tyrants to shackle wit.

The irrepressible energy of the music illustrates that, just as with courage and folly, humor, even in the form of " laughing in the face of the gallows " is both irrepressible and eternal ( a concept, incidentally, also present in the Burns poem ).