Robert Burns The Peoples Poet BBC Documentary

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  • Опубліковано 19 лют 2015
  • Robert Burns (Rabbie) was an influential Scottish poet and lyricist during the Romantic movement. He is recognized as Scotland's finest poet and his work is celebrated all over the world. Learn more:
    www.bbc.co.uk/arts/robertburns
    www.robertburns.org/

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  • @okeydok123
    @okeydok123 Рік тому +18

    If you are scottish, share this with your children. It's your duty to keep the flame burning forever. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

    • @okeydok123
      @okeydok123 Рік тому

      @mike johnson But not your culture.

    • @okeydok123
      @okeydok123 Рік тому +1

      @mike johnson you sound like an old Christmas card, aye greetin.

  • @alibali1968
    @alibali1968 7 років тому +39

    Under 500 views is ridiculous. Robert Burns can truly and without overstating, be considered as a genius. Way ahead of progression and enlightenment. Absolutely, poetic.

    • @rebeccawilliams774
      @rebeccawilliams774 Рік тому +1

      48k now :)

    • @IndieVolken
      @IndieVolken 6 місяців тому +1

      mebbes the embra spelling gie folk the boak likesay

    • @Colin32269
      @Colin32269 6 місяців тому +1

      Dont worry son,we read books on Burns years b4 you chube was around❤.

  • @jimhood1202
    @jimhood1202 6 місяців тому +3

    Excellent documentary. I especially liked the fact that the presenter was himself a Scottish writer. He chose to hone in on the many artistc compromises and contadictions Burns made either voluntarily or otherwise. Thankfully they didn't stifle his genius. Very enjoyable programme.

  • @Clubbedcashew50
    @Clubbedcashew50 6 місяців тому +4

    I watch this video just about every year in Jan. The does justice to this passionate man in the time that is alloted. I only wish it longer, a great piece of art, thank you.

  • @gitana8281
    @gitana8281 8 місяців тому +3

    ❤ Such a good documentary. Thanks for sharing. 🙏

  • @Walgriff
    @Walgriff 2 роки тому +7

    Great documentary… thank you for sharing.

  • @lillyandruben
    @lillyandruben 8 років тому +12

    excellent documentary

  • @esmeburnzy7809
    @esmeburnzy7809 5 років тому +14

    I know nobody’s gonna believe me but I’m Robert Burns 50 times granddaughter I’m not joking I am

  • @ladyandaharp
    @ladyandaharp 6 років тому +4

    Delighted to have found this! Happy New Year!

  • @lyno5211
    @lyno5211 Рік тому +6

    Such a well done, nuanced presentation. As someone who has made a subsistence living as an artist in my youth, I wonder if Burns could have avoided the hypocrisy label noted at the end, had he been compensated abundantly for his genius and contribution to the literary reputation of Scotland.

  • @bandanaworm
    @bandanaworm Рік тому

    I just brain blazed too hard & danny brought me here.. fascinating to find out about robert burns's life

  • @drrd4127
    @drrd4127 2 роки тому +1

    Maun delicht tae read Rabbie Burns noo a'm aulder bit it wis tortur as ae wean.
    (Such delight to read Robert Burns now I am older but it was torture as a child).

  • @kevinblessing4257
    @kevinblessing4257 7 місяців тому

    God bless the people's poet

  • @cs3742
    @cs3742 Рік тому +3

    So what happened to his poor wife and childern? It distresses me greatly to think of Jean giving posthumous birth and no income to keep it and her other children from starving in a workhouse. His literary legacy lived on, but we need to know about his mortal legacy as well.

  • @williewigan3077
    @williewigan3077 Рік тому

    Fantastic!

  • @tampetrie2858
    @tampetrie2858 8 років тому +6

    Best documentry ever on the Heaven Taught Plooman.

  • @Silverchord1974
    @Silverchord1974 2 роки тому +10

    My ancestor! It makes me proud to be of his bloodline!

    • @RNFLACKOratshobo
      @RNFLACKOratshobo 2 роки тому +2

      OMG SAME hey there cousin!

    • @Silverchord1974
      @Silverchord1974 2 роки тому +2

      @@RNFLACKOratshobo what’s your family lineage? My grandfather and greats down the line were all named Robert Burns, until my Grandfather had all daughters lol

    • @Silverchord1974
      @Silverchord1974 2 роки тому +1

      Hey cuz!!! ❤️

    • @RNFLACKOratshobo
      @RNFLACKOratshobo 2 роки тому +5

      @@Silverchord1974 My grandmother on my mothers side was his direct descendent through her father, she was born in Aberdeen and migrated from Scotland to Canada and settled in Quebec, her maiden name was straight up Burns.

    • @bernadetteg6700
      @bernadetteg6700 Рік тому

      My Grandmother is related to
      Jean burns

  • @williamstamper5395
    @williamstamper5395 Рік тому

    The poet he was, to the Scottish , some we know and some we don't is fame to all who knew him best, so read and site his words when his birthday is here we never will forget, Rabbie ever more always to your words be known to all whom knows them best.

  • @DippyChazza
    @DippyChazza 3 роки тому

    Cheers this helped with my Rabbie Burns homework

  • @HebrewsElevenTwentyFive
    @HebrewsElevenTwentyFive 6 років тому +1

    Intriguing.

  • @robbiethepict2783
    @robbiethepict2783 6 місяців тому

    He kept our Scottish identity alive, when it was just the candles flame after Culloden. He fought not with swords but with the pen and the mither tongue.

  • @openmic3535
    @openmic3535 7 років тому +1

    Love the weedgie "to a mouse"!!

  • @babybookworm003
    @babybookworm003 7 років тому +6

    I am breaking out my kilt for a burns supper tomorrow

  • @dawsonharding1320
    @dawsonharding1320 7 років тому +7

    Id like to know more about the family tree of robbie burns leading to current family, I was told by my late grandfather that we were direct descendants. I would love to know more.

    • @salmonesque
      @salmonesque 7 років тому +4

      I was thinking the same but it must be more like a family forest considering his libido and the lack of contraception in 18th century Scotland.

    • @paulharrison5977
      @paulharrison5977 6 років тому

      Dear possible cousin try this www.burness.ca/burns.html he is my 7 gt grandmother step grandson

    • @thecircle8568
      @thecircle8568 5 років тому +1

      Lol yeah he's one on my ancestors and I'm not kidding

    • @SuperDoetinchem
      @SuperDoetinchem 3 роки тому +1

      You do know he has up to today 1500 descendants. Welcome to the club

  • @MegaJacko4
    @MegaJacko4 7 років тому +27

    oh once I loved a bonnie lass,
    Aye, and I love her still
    And whilst that virtue warms my breast
    I love my handsome Nell
    As Bonnie lassies I hae seen,
    An mauny full as braw
    But for a modest, gracefu' mein
    The like I never saw..
    A bonie lass, I will confess
    Is pleasant to the e'e (eye)
    But without some better qualities
    She's no the lass for me
    But Nelly's looks are Blyth and sweet
    And what is best of aw' (all)
    Her reputation is complete
    And fair without a flaw...
    She dresses aye sae clean an' neat
    Both decent an' gente'el
    And then theirs somethin' in her gait
    Gars ony dress look we'el
    A gawdy dress and gentle air
    may slightly touch the heart
    but it's innocence and modesty
    that polishes the dart
    Tis this in Nelly pleases me
    tis this enchants my soul
    for absolutely, in my breast
    She reigns without control.
    beautiful ❤❤❤

  • @ROGERWDARCY
    @ROGERWDARCY 6 років тому +2

    Can you do the jolly beggars right?

  • @thecircle8568
    @thecircle8568 5 років тому +2

    He is my ancestor and I'm not joking

  • @liam4002
    @liam4002 4 роки тому

    Did you know, Robert Burns’ daughter (Elizabeth) was burried in whitburn?

  • @MsSharon28
    @MsSharon28 6 років тому

    aye the deils awa,

  • @puddyvalentine
    @puddyvalentine 7 місяців тому

    Edinboro?

  • @ramthian
    @ramthian Рік тому

    Aberdeen 🇬🇧

  • @IndieVolken
    @IndieVolken 6 місяців тому

    59:13 to 59:15 is pretty much modern Scotland tho !

  • @bertifrasilmeye995
    @bertifrasilmeye995 Рік тому +1

    EDINBURGH....edin-burra.

  • @lawrencebishton9071
    @lawrencebishton9071 Рік тому

    @terry#66 he don't know 🤣🤣🤣

  • @francescapoteet5481
    @francescapoteet5481 Рік тому

    Funny; today we sinners all just sit amongst the congregation. I wonder; is it because they didn't have enough seats up front and center?

  • @lawrencebishton9071
    @lawrencebishton9071 Рік тому

    Does he know ??? 🤣

  • @nhanlethi953
    @nhanlethi953 2 роки тому

    CovidImages need to be invested more than half19

  • @Rapscallion019
    @Rapscallion019 5 років тому +3

    Watching this documentary may leave the casual viewer with the mistaken view that Burns was some sort of atheist, proto-Marxist, free-loving, cosmopolitan Beatle who disdained all forms of tradition. As with many historical figures, one often learns more about the scholar than the subject when reading or viewing these interpretations.

    • @nuri2318
      @nuri2318 5 років тому +1

      Then please offer some insight . I am student of English literature and we have romanticism in this semester.

    • @Rapscallion019
      @Rapscallion019 5 років тому +2

      pearl nuri Romanticism is a product of the post-Catholic, industrializing Europe of the 18th and 19th centuries. Robert Burns’ naturalist, pastoral, patriotic, and crypto-Catholic poems are dismissed by this documentary as efforts to make money or win favour. I would argue that those works are Burns’ true response to a life under Scottish Presbyterianism and English domination of Scotland, an attempt to preserve what was disappearing from his home land. Protestant repression also explains his often caddish behavior when it comes to women and drink.

    • @staceya5149
      @staceya5149 3 роки тому +1

      Agreed. It's a well produced documentary, but O'Hagen's constant hand-wringing over any aspect of Burn's story that doesn't neatly align with his own ideas and politics was extremely off putting. He seems less interested in who Burns was and more interested in what *he* thinks Burns *should* be.

    • @jeanie4176
      @jeanie4176 6 місяців тому

      @@Rapscallion019 I appreciate this insight. Watching this documentary left me with wondering about the real Robert Burns. I also wonder how and why he was so glorified? Yes wonderful poetry but sounds like he personally was so disrespectful, to put it lightly, to his wife and children. Where was the honor there? Did he love his wife and children? What did he really feel about his weaknesses, About God ? I can’t belief he was that shallow, which is how he comes across here. With that being said, I love so much of Robert Burns poetry.

  • @ChrisGWGreen
    @ChrisGWGreen 4 роки тому

    Line dancing to me is how the devil and hitler spend their free time

  • @andrewlinesjah4538
    @andrewlinesjah4538 4 роки тому

    With all due respect Mate , you know very little about the poetic fire of our dear Rabbi Burns .
    And as for a readin' - Nay , ye cannie read it like that !

  • @rumination608
    @rumination608 2 роки тому

    So, John Lennon would approve of slave driving? 🤔

    • @erinundra
      @erinundra Рік тому

      I admired Lennon very much as a musician, but I never thought much of him as a man.

    • @peterburton9880
      @peterburton9880 Місяць тому

      @@erinundra Burns didn't go. He changed his mind.