; poetry falls into two main groups: english and scottish. his english poems are, for the most part, inferior spes of ventioeenth-tury verse. but in scottish poetry he achieved triumphs of a quite extraordinary kind. sihe time of the reformation and the union of the s of engnd and sd, the scots dialect had rgely fallen into disuse as a medium fnified writing. shortly before burns' time, however, aln ramsay and robert fergusson had been the leading figures in a revival of the vernacur, and burns received from them a national tradition which he succeeded in carrying to its highest pitch, being thereby, to an almost unique degree, the poet of his peo
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