This site includes information on Robert Burns Night, a celebration of Scotland's national poet that is held every year in places all over the world. Listen to'A Red, Red Rose' recited by Christopher Tait, an actor who performs as Robert Burns at Burns Suppers and other Scottish events around the world. This resource includes information on Robert Burns's life, writings, and nearly every person and place connected with Burns. View a digital copy of the 1794 book 'A Selection of Scots Songs Harmonized Improved with Simple and Adapted Graces,' in which 'A Red, Red Rose' was originally published (scroll to location 80 to see the poem).

Trying to pull off the Scottish Luve when you're.not Scottish.won't win you any points in our book.- Here you can hear Rachel Sermanni sing 'A Red, Red Rose' with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in one of the poem's most popular musical settings. If you were to drop this quote at a dinner party, would you get an in-unison 'awww' or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10. So fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a the seas. This song has been covered by dozens of people, from Eva Cassidy to Carly Simon. A Red, Red Rose is a traditional Scottish folk song that was written down by Robert Burns and first published in 1794. Burns, of course, put his own spin on it, and it's gone down in history as his work. 'A Red, Red Rose' first appeared in print in Urbani's volume, but it had been around for quite some time before the collection: the poem's phrases and ideas can be found in any number of other 'songs' popular in Scotland before and during Burns's lifetime. Luckily, his experience as a farm-laborer familiarized him with the lore of rural Scotland, and as a result he was asked to contribute to Pietro Urbani's Selections of Scots Songs, published in 1794. Oh yeah, it's a song. Burns was pretty big on preserving traditional Scottish songs and folktales, many of which he had nothing to do with writing. ' A Red, Red Rose' is a sap of a song if we ever heard one. But as it turns out, that's Robert Burns for 'love.' Yeah, the first time we read this, we though we were learning about a new part of the anatomy. Love A Red, Red Rose Life Nature Relationship Beauty Romantic Experience Poetry Robert Burns Context

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