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 Flinticus 27 Jan 2014
About 12 years in Scotland and I don't get Burns.
In reply to Flinticus:

I remember niggle kicking off when it was suggested that haggis is just a sausage which might not have been invented in Scotland. Good luck.
 graeme jackson 27 Jan 2014
In reply to Turdus torquatus:
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> I remember niggle kicking off when it was suggested that haggis is just a sausage which might not have been invented in Scotland.

At least of roman origin and probably early greek.

 Al Evans 27 Jan 2014
In reply to Flinticus:

Thats probably because it's pretty shit really, I mean he was hardly Wordsworth or Shelley was he?
Douglas Griffin 27 Jan 2014
In reply to Al Evans:

I can't claim to be all that keen on Burns. He wrote some great stuff but much of his output doesn't do a lot for me.

But even if he'd only ever written "A Man's a Man for a' That", he'd still deserve to be famous. I thought that given your political views you might appreciate poems like that one; then again, it could well be that you can't see past his use of Scots.
OP Flinticus 27 Jan 2014
If you're into picking poets by nationality (which I'm not), a Scottish poet I really like is John Burnside. He's one of the few poets whose work I could be bothered buying and I didn't even know he was Scottish at the time.
 ripper 27 Jan 2014
In reply to Flinticus:

Personally I've always loved the sentiments expressed in 'Scotch Drink'.

But I'm not a massive fan - I mean he's no McGonagall
 philipivan 27 Jan 2014
In reply to Douglas Griffin:
Agreed! I like this version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjr5boTgis4‎
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 Tom Valentine 27 Jan 2014
In reply to Al Evans:
I don't know much about Shelley but I reckon Burns runs Wordsworth a very close second.

Just re-read Tam O'Shanter and changed my mind - Wordsworth runs Burns a close second.
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 Mark Bull 27 Jan 2014
In reply to Flinticus:

Personally, I appreciate his talents more as a song lyricist than a straight poet. I find the likes of Ae Fond Kiss, Aye Waulking O and John Anderson My Jo genuinely affecting, especially in Eddi Reader's interpretations.

youtube.com/watch?v=lj5Vsm-Be4g&
youtube.com/watch?v=RMmtBgMaF5I&
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In reply to Al Evans:

What a pathetic response from a Socialist! - shame on you! Maybe you just don't like Scots!
 Sharp 28 Jan 2014
In reply to Flinticus:

Jings man, keep it down. You're not supposed to say he's shit out loud.
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In reply to Mark Bull:

Me too, though possibly his songs are more accessible, and I'm more familiar with them.

Re the origins of haggis, you can find an offal sausage of some sort in pretty much every country, and it's likely that the Romans would have had one not unlike haggis in their more sheep infested domains.
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