Burns was less than impressed with the celebrations, and consequently wrote this mocking Psalm. In a letter to Mrs Dunlop, Burns claimed, ‘As I am not devoutly attached to a certain monarch I ...
Burns spent time in Edinburgh in 1787 following the success of the first edition of his work, published in Kilmarnock.Robert Burns was born into a farming family at Alloway in Ayrshire in 1759.