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  • Event In Memory Of Robert Burns To Be Held In Yerevan Jan. 30

    EVENT IN MEMORY OF ROBERT BURNS TO BE HELD IN YEREVAN JAN. 30

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    26.01.2010 15:55 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ An event dedicated to famous Scottish poet Robert
    Burns will be held in Yerevan on January 30. On the same day, the
    12th Charity Burns Supper will be given by the Committee of Burns
    and the British Embassy of Armenia. Traditionally, the attendees
    will be served Haggis, a Scottish national dish, prepared by a cook,
    who arrived from the UK.

    A day earlier, "Youth Center of Burns" will open in Zatik orphanage.

    In the new center, which was established with the funds raised during
    last year's Supper, the orphans will be taught English and computer
    science.

    A part of the funds raised was spent on purchase of medical equipment
    for several maternity hospitals in Armenian regions.

    Robert Burns (25 January 1759 - 21 July 1796) (also known as Rabbie
    Burns, Scotland's favorite son, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of
    Ayrshire and in Scotland as simply The Bard) was a Scottish poet and
    a lyricist. Born in Alloway, Scotland, Robert Burns was the first of
    William and Agnes Burnes' seven children. At the age of fifteen, he
    fell in love and shortly thereafter he wrote his first poem. As a young
    man, Burns pursued both love and poetry with uncommon zeal. In 1785, he
    fathered the first of his fourteen children. His biographer, DeLancey
    Ferguson, had said, "it was not so much that he was conspicuously
    sinful as that he sinned conspicuously." He is widely regarded as the
    national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best
    known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although
    much of his writing is also in English and a "light" Scots dialect,
    accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard
    English, and in these pieces, his political or civil commentary is
    often at its most blunt. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic
    movement and after his death became a great source of inspiration
    to the founders of both liberalism and socialism. A cultural icon in
    Scotland and among the Scottish Diaspora around the world, celebration
    of his life and work became almost a national charismatic cult during
    the 19th and 20th centuries, and his influence has long been strong on
    Scottish literature. In 2009 he was voted by the Scottish public as
    being the Greatest Scot, through a vote run by Scottish television
    channel STV. As well as making original compositions, Burns also
    collected folk songs from across Scotland, often revising or adapting
    them. His poem (and song) Auld Lang Syne is often sung at Hogmanay
    (the last day of the year), and Scots Wha Hae served for a long time
    as an unofficial national anthem of the country. Other poems and
    songs of Burns that remain well-known across the world today include
    A Red, Red Rose; A Man's A Man for A' That; To a Louse; To a Mouse;
    The Battle of Sherramuir; Tam o' Shanter and Ae Fond Kiss.
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