His uncle, George Lauder, whom he referred to as " Dod ", introduced him to the writings of Robert Burns and historical Scottish heroes such as Robert the Bruce, William Wallace, and Rob Roy.

The last of these also contained some oral material and by the end of the 18th century this was becoming increasingly common, with collections including John Ritson's, The Bishopric Garland ( 1784 ), which paralleled the work of figures like Robert Burns and Walter Scott in Scotland.

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.

Robert Burns ( 1759 – 1796 )

A Burns supper is a celebration of the life and poetry of the poet Robert Burns, author of many Scots poems.

The suppers are normally held on or near the poet's birthday, 25 January, sometimes also known as Robert Burns Day or Burns Night ( Burns Nicht ), although they may in principle be held at any time of the year.

The first suppers were held in Ayrshire at the end of the 18th century by Robert Burns ' friends on the anniversary of his death, 21 July, In Memoriam and they have been a regular occurrence ever since.

Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Joseph Priestley, Humphry Davy, Linus Pauling, Gilbert N. Lewis, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Robert Burns Woodward, and Fritz Haber also made notable contributions.

CEO's of top Fortune 500 companies include James P. Gorman of Morgan Stanley, Robert J. Stevens of Lockheed Martin, Philippe Dauman of Viacom, Ursula Burns of Xerox, and Vikram Pandit of Citigroup.

Robert Burns ( 1759-96 ) exalted as Scotland's national poet.

Both the major literary figures of the following century, Robert Burns and Walter Scott, would be highly influenced by the Ossian cycle.

", as well as the supernatural associated with the night, " Bogies " ( ghosts ), influencing Robert Burns ' Halloween 1785.

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

Haggis is traditionally served as part of the Burns supper on the week of January 25, when Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns, is commemorated.

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

" This particular line of criticism also misses the obvious parallels that existed between the story's background ( England conquered by the Normans in 1066, when they killed Saxon King Harold at Hastings, about 130 years previously ) and the prevailing situation in Scott's native Scotland ( Scotland's union with England in 1707 – about the same length of time had elapsed before Scott's writing and the resurgence in his time of Scottish nationalism evidenced by the cult of Robert Burns, the famous poet who deliberately chose to work in Scots vernacular though he was an educated man and spoke modern English eloquently ).

* 1759 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet ( d. 1796 )

* Burns, Robert.

* Robert the Bruce Heritage Centre

* The right wing of the Trafford Centre is called Peel Avenue, named after Robert Peel.

Statue of Robert the Bruce by Pilkington Jackson, near the Bannockburn Heritage Centre

Australia – defining a model for the new millennium, London: University of London, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, 1998.

In 2004 The Robert Boyle Science Room was opened nearby in the Lismore Heritage Centre dedicated to his life and works where students have the opportunity of studying science and participating in scientific experiments.

On the west side of the River Nith is the Robert Burns Centre, housed in what was once the Dumfries Mill.

Construction of the Adelaide Festival Centre began in 1970 and South Australia's Sir Robert Helpmann became director of the Adelaide Festival of Arts.

Other shopping complexes in Tamworth include Robert St Shopping Centre and the Longyard Homemakers Centre.

At more or less the same time, a bequest of tribal art and 20th century painting and sculpture, by artists such as Francis Bacon and Henry Moore, from Sir Robert and Lady Lisa Sainsbury resulted in the construction of the striking Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the western end of the main teaching wall, one of the first major works of architect Norman Foster.

The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the western end of the main teaching wall designed by Norman Foster to house the art collection of Sir Robert and Lady Lisa Sainsbury, and " Sportspark ", a multi-sports facilities built in 2001 thanks to a £ 14. 5 million grant from Sport England Lottery Fund.

The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts was designed by Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank | Norman Foster to house the art collection of Robert Sainsbury | Sir Robert and Lady Lisa Sainsbury, whose daughter attended the university

For example, the introduction of the BC Cancer Agency's Centre for the North has attracted academic oncologists, such as Dr. Robert Olson.

* Robert E. Dowse: Left in the Centre: The Independent Labour Party 1893-1940.

The Forth Street works continued to build locomotives until the mid-twentieth century, and the original factory building still exists, at Forth Street in Newcastle, as the Robert Stephenson Centre.

Gates spoke to MPs including David Amess MP, Robert Buckland MP, and Steve Brine MP at the Palace of Westminster as part of a briefing on communication disability hosted by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and the Centre for Social Justice.

* Centre d ' entraînement Robert Louis-Dreyfus, also known as La Commanderie, training ground of Olympique de Marseille

The house has now been restored ( 2006 – 09 ) and has enabled the Museum to expand its educational activities, to re-locate its Research Library in that house and to create a Robert Adam Study Centre where Soane's collection of 9, 000 Robert Adam drawings is housed in purpose-designed new cabinets by Senior and Carmichael.

Several failed projects such as the Rainbow Centre Factory Outlet, Niagara Falls Convention and Civic Center, the Native American Cultural Center, the Hooker Chemical ( later the Occidental Petroleum ) Headquarters building, the Wintergarden, the Fallsville Splash Park, Aquafalls, a multi-story parking ramp, an enclosed pedestrian walkway / bridge, the Falls Street Faire / Falls Street Station amusement complexes, parts of the Robert Moses State Parkway, and the Mayor E. Dent Lackey Plaza closed within twenty years of their construction.

Much of this text appears in: Robert Elsie, Albanian literature: a short history, Centre for Albanian Studies, London 2005, p. 157.

Robert Delaunay, Paysage au disque, 1906 – 1907, oil on canvas, 55 x 46 cm, Musée national d ' art moderne ( MNAM ), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Along with works such as Treasure Island ( 1883 ) and Prince Otto ( 1885 ) by Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jules Verne's A Journey to the Centre of the Earth ( 1871 ) and Around the World in Eighty Days ( 1875 ), She had an important formative effect on the development of the adventure novel.

He is too deeply steeped in William Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren.

Robert Penn Warren puts it this way in `` Brother To Dragons '': `` The recognition of complicity is the beginning of innocence '', where innocence, I think, means about the same thing as redemption.

-- Your July 26 editorial regarding the position of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on prospective tax relief for DuPont stockholders is based on an erroneous statement of fact.

Perhaps there is more truth than we are wont to admit in the conviction of that ornament of Tarheelia, Robert Ruark's grandfather, who was persuaded that the great curse of the modern world is `` all this gallivantin' ''.

Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak.

Sir Robert Watson-Watt's `` rebuttal '' of Sir Charles Snow's Godkin Lectures is marred throughout by too forceful a desire to defend Lindemann and apparently himself from Sir Charles' supposed falsehoods while stating those `` falsehoods '' in an unclear incoherent argument.

Her mother wrote Kate of her grief at the death of Kate's baby and at Jonathan's decision to go with the South `` And, dear Kate '', she wrote, `` poor Dr. Breckenridge's son Robert is now organizing a militia company to go South, to his good father's sorrow.

It is curious that at its best, the work of this school of painting -- Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Willem De-Kooning, and the rest -- resembles nothing so much as the passage painting of quite unimpressive painters: the mother-of-pearl shimmer in the background of a Henry McFee, itself a formula derived from Renoir ; ;

Mrs. Robert O. Spurdle is chairman of the committee, which includes Mrs. James A. Moody, Mrs. Frank C. Wilkinson, Mrs. Ethel Coles, Mrs. Harold G. Lacy, Mrs. Albert W. Terry, Mrs. Henry M. Chance, 2d, Mrs. Robert O. Spurdle, Jr., Mrs. Harcourt N. Trimble, Jr., Mrs. John A. Moller, Mrs. Robert Zeising, Mrs. William G. Kilhour, Mrs. Hughes Cauffman, Mrs. John L. Baringer and Mrs. Clyde Newman.

Robert Morse, singing with comically plaintive earnestness, carries most of the burden and is responsible for the high spots in Frank Loesser's score.

The alchemist Robert Boyle is credited as being the father of chemistry.

* Robert Owen Evans is a minister of the Uniting Church in Australia and an amateur astronomer who holds the all-time record for visual discoveries of supernovae.

It is also consistent with ZF + DC that every set of reals is Lebesgue measurable ; however, this consistency result, due to Robert M. Solovay, cannot be proved in ZFC itself, but requires a mild large cardinal assumption ( the existence of an inaccessible cardinal ).

The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

* 1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.

Robert Bruce Lindsay's ' Wheel of Acoustics ' is a well accepted overview of the various fields in acoustics.

It is somewhat unusual for directors to be credited co-editors, although the Coen Brothers and Robert Rodriguez have both directed and edited nearly all of their films.

This approach is due to Vladimir Fock, Wendell Furry and Robert Oppenheimer.

* 1863 – American Civil War: following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis ( which is refused upon receipt ).

The most exclusive course is that of the Tres Vidas Golf Club, designed by Robert von Hagge.

The Robert F. Henry Lock & Dam is located at river mile 236. 2, the Millers Ferry Lock & Dam is located at river mile 133. 0, and the Claiborne Lock & Dam is located at river mile 72. 5.