Robert Burns (1759-1796) was the premiere Scottish poet and balladeer, regarded in Scotland with the same reverence as Shakespeare in England—and, like Shakespeare’s creative use of Elizabethan ...

Robert Burns wrote down the lyrics to "Auld Lang Syne," and in the almost 250 years since, it's been cemented as the anthem ...

Here is the meaning behind the Robert Burns poem Auld Lang Syne and why we sing at Hogmanay and New Year's Eve.

According to Scotland.org, the phrase 'auld lang syne' roughly translates as 'for old times' sake', and the song is all about preserving old friendships and looking back over the events of the year." ...

Auld Lang Syne is the closest thing the world has to a shared anthem. The farm steading where Robert Burns wrote it and ...

Connections between Scotland and Jamaica will be celebrated in a new collaboration at the Scottish Poetry Library. The ...

Ellisland, a Category A-listed farmhouse six miles north of Dumfries, was built by Burns for his bride Jean Armour Burns in ...

As “Auld Lang Syne” takes its annual spin around the globe on New Year’s Eve, its chorus belted out by revelers young and old, Edinburgh’s Poet Laureate Michael Pedersen says the song’s enduring power ...