id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4754 Robert Burns - Wikipedia .html text/html 9757 1144 75 On 31 July 1786 John Wilson published the volume of works by Robert Burns, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish dialect.[13] Known as the Kilmarnock volume, it sold for 3 shillings and contained much of his best writing, including "The Twa Dogs", "Address to the Deil", "Halloween", "The Cotter's Saturday Night", "To a Mouse", "Epitaph for James Smith", and "To a Mountain Daisy", many of which had been written at Mossgiel farm. 'Robbie Burns Day' is celebrated from Newfoundland and Labrador[42] to Nanaimo.[43] Every year, Canadian newspapers publish biographies of the poet,[44] listings of local events[45] and buffet menus.[46] Universities mark the date in a range of ways: McMaster University library organized a special collection[47] and Simon Fraser University's Centre for Scottish Studies organized a marathon reading of Burns's poetry.[48][49] Senator Heath Macquarrie quipped of Canada's first Prime Minister that "While the lovable [Robbie] Burns went in for wine, women and song, his fellow Scot, John A. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4754.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4754.txt