sections:

Robert Fergusson Cotter's Saturday Night - Wilkie Painting Cotter's Saturday Night - Etching Cotter's Saturday Night - Re-Enactment Tam O'Shanter - Scene Inside Kirk Tam O'Shanter - Witch Chasing Tam Tam O'Shanter - An Audio Clip Tam O'Shanter - Souter Johnny's Thatched House Tam O'Shanter - Brig O'Doon Other Works - Poem On Glass Pane Other Works - 'Macpherson's Farewell'

Poems & Songs

urns' legacy of original songs and poems and his adaptations of existing Scots material has ensured his prominent place in Scotland's culture. Inspired by poets such as Robert Fergusson, for whom Burns commissioned a headstone for his grave, Burns produced some of the most enduring of Scottish poetry, represented here by The Cottar's Saturday Night and Tam O'Shanter.