Dying in debt, Burns’ poverty never left him, but his sense of the world being an unequal place, and his position among the poor and deprived meant his work resonated keenly with everyday Scots. A forerunner of the Romantic movement, he wrote frequently and usually with great passion: most often, he wrote songs and poems of love, lust, drink, the poor and rich and the gulf between them, religion, and of Scottish identity. The sharp sense of his Scottishness was reassured by his frequent use of Scots dialect in his work: it helped him become regarded as the national poet of Scotland, a reputation still head today.
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