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Description: | Robert Burns(1759-96), Scotland's' National Poet was born in a small thatched Cottage in Alloway, Ayrshire the son of a market gardener who feued 7 acres of land . In a short period Burns composed a wealth of songs and poems. He died of relative poverty as a farmer due to heart disease at the age of 37.
The scene depicted with the cotter, reading from the bible, and his family around the table was engraved by J. Rogers after J.M. Wright in 1842. For this poem Burns used the Spensarian stanza popular in the 18th. Century extolling the merits of rustic simplicity.
This poem composed in the winter of 1785-86 was first published in his Kilmarnock edition. It describes the homely family life of a country worker and Henry McKenzie a friend of the Poet in Edinburgh mentions- 'one of the happiest and most affecting scenes to be found in country life'. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1842-01-01 - 1842-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Framed engraving of 'The Cotter's Saturd | Go to resource |
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