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To a Mouse. " To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785 " [1] [2] is a Scots-language poem written by Robert Burns in 1785. It was included in the Kilmarnock volume [3] and all of the poet's later editions, such as the Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Edinburgh Edition).
Ken Burns. Kenneth Lauren Burns [1] (born July 29, 1953) is an American filmmaker known for his documentary films and television series, many of which chronicle American history and culture. His work is often produced in association with WETA-TV or the National Endowment for the Humanities and distributed by PBS .
The surviving manuscript of the instructional work A Manual of Religious Belief is written in the form of a theological dialogue between father and child written out in holograph by John Murdoch for William Burnes, Robert Burns 's father. William had started to compose and compile the work before Robert Burns's birth and wrote the first rough ...
Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, [ a] was a Scottish poet and lyricist. 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 in a "light Scots dialect ...
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Tam o' Shanter (poem) The opening scene of the poem – Tam drinks with his shoemaker friend, souter Johnnie, and flirts with the pub landlady while the landlord laughs at Johnnie's tales. " Tam o' Shanter " is a narrative poem written by the Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1790, while living in Dumfries. First published in 1791, at 228 (or 224 ...
The Ken Burns effectis a type of panningand zoomingeffect used in film and video production from non-consecutive still images. The name derives from extensive use of the technique by American documentarian Ken Burns. This technique had also been used to produce animatics, simple animated mockups used to previsualizemotion pictures, but Burns's ...
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border is an anthology of Border ballads, together with some from north-east Scotland and a few modern literary ballads, edited by Walter Scott. It was first published by Archibald Constable in Edinburgh in 1802, but was expanded in several later editions, reaching its final state in 1830, two years before Scott's death.