With an Introduction by Donald McFarlan.Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the age of eighteen Burns had acquired a good knowledge of both classical and English literature. In June 1786 his first collection of verse, Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, which included ...
ZE WSTYMPU MIREK SYNIAWA Niyjedyn możno mi powiy: dyć kaj Szkocyjo, chopie, a kaj Ślonsk? Jo se atoli myśla, że kej w Szkocyji som Morawy (downymu krolestwu Moray, w kerym rzońdzioł krol Macbeth, łacińske kroniki dowały czynsto miano Moravia), to i na Ślonsk musi być tamstond niydaleko. I jak czytom jedyn abo drugi Burnsow wiersz, to widza, że Szkot niy jyno mo take same poczucie humoru jak Ślonzok, ale tyż tak jak Ślonzok niyrod mo zazbyt ugrzeczniono, zazbyt „ulizano” godk...
