Robert Burns - His Poetry, Special Day , and Love of Haggis

This class will introduce students to Robert Burns, Scotland's National bard.  We will learn what takes place at a traditional Burns Night celebration. Many attend a Burns celebration wearing traditional Scottish clothing.  We will learn about kilts and clan tartans. The main course, the haggis, is the centerpiece of every Burns supper.  It is ceremoniously paraded into the room to the playing of bagpipes. Then several of his works are recited, most notable his Address to a Haggis. Why did...