WebThe Cotter's Saturday Night by Robert Burns Inscribed to Robert Aiken, Esq. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a … On a cold Saturday evening in November, a Scottish cotter—a peasant farmer who labours in return for the right to live in a cottage—returns home to his family ahead of the Sabbath. His wife and numerous children gather round the fire to share their news, while he gives out fatherly advice and admonition based on … See more The Cotter's Saturday Night is a poem by Robert Burns that was first published in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect in 1786. See more "The Cotter's Saturday Night" has inspired numerous works of art and literature. The Scottish painter John Faed produced a series of … See more Burns wrote "The Cotter's Saturday Night" at his Mossgiel farm, near Mauchline, during the winter of 1785-86. He adopted the lengthy Spenserian stanza form from Robert Fergusson's similarly themed 1773 poem "The Farmer's Ingle" to allow space to evoke his pastoral … See more

Robert Burns The Cotter

WebThe Cotter's Saturday Night - YouTube Provided to YouTube by Threads Of SoundThe Cotter's Saturday Night · Tom FlemingThe Robert Burns Collection℗ 1995 Lismor RecordingsReleased on:... http://robertburns.org/encyclopedia/CottersSaturdayNightThe.233.shtml if e and f are disjoint events the p e or f

http://www.robertburnsfederation.com/poems/translations/470.htm WebRobert Burns (also known as Robin) was a Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the … WebThe Cotter's Saturday Night. A "Cotter" in Burns's time was a poor peasant who was given the use of a Cot or Cottage by the property owner in exchange for labour as opposed to paying rent. This poem relates how … ife and efe matrices