43+ Robert Burns Poems About Jean Armour

Bonie Jean Jean Armour For all his philandering ways whe he was a young lad there can be no doubt that Robert Burns loved his wife Jean Armour.

Robert burns poems about jean armour. Jean Armour was the daughter of a stonemason in Mauchline Ayrshire where she met Robert Burns in 1784. In recent years exactly a month after her husbands commemoration more and more suppers have been held in honour of Jean Burns. Burns Jean Armour 1767-1834 The girl who became Burnss wife was one of the eleven children of James Armour a master mason of Mauchline. He fell for her when he was about 25 years of age and she soon became pregnant.

Her father a master mason from the nearby village of Mauchline was outraged and forbade her to see him. Jean Armour bears twins Robert and Jean. Jean Armour Burns wife bore him nine children in 10 years the last born on the day of the poets funeral. Robert Burns eventually married Jean Armour in 1788 Image.

The summer of 1785 was an incredibly busy time for both Robert and Jean. Robert had no further dealings with Lizzie although the child Bess was ultimately taken in by the Burns family and raised by Roberts own mother who initially had encouraged Robert to do the honorable thing with Lizzie but was overruled by the rest of the family. So it is not surprising in the chronological selection below that even though he had been through the mill of emotion and experience his first and his last love poems celebrate the joy of physical union. Burns seems to have met her early in 1784 soon after he moved to Mossgiel and was in a mood of emancipation following his fathers death.

Wife of the poet Robert Burns Introduction. Of Burns 12 confirmed offspring nine were with Jean Armour. The song I Love my Jean was inspired by Robert Burnss wife Jean Armour 1767-1834 and composed shortly after the couples marriage in the Spring of 1788. Jean Armour the poets wife was born on February 25 1767.

Robbie tours the highlands with friend William Nicol. Jean Armour Mrs Robert Burns. 1785 Writes To a Mouse 1785 6 Has an affair with Mary Campbell 1786 The first edition of Burns poetry Poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect known as the Kilmarnock edition was published. Two more baby Burns.

When Jean fell pregnant Burns was reluctant to marry her but did apparently promise that he would stick by her. In a lecture in 2018 she drew attention to a letter Burns penned in 1788 to his friend Robert Ainslie in which he bragged at length about his sexual relationship with his lover Jean Armour. Robbie famously etches lines of poems into windows and masonry of which many are still preserved and visible today. Jean Armour 25 February 1765 26 March 1834 also known as the Belle of Mauchline was the wife of the poet Robert BurnsShe inspired many of his poems and bore him nine children three of whom survived into adulthood.

Friend and painter Alexander Namsyth completes his famous portrait of Robbie commissioned as a book-cover. Getty In 1788 after two years of struggling to adapt to Edinburgh society he moved to a farm in Ellisland Dumfriesshire. It sells out within a month. Burns had another child with ladys maid Jenny Clow who worked for Mrs Agnes.

The two had an on and off relationship over the course of several years before finally marrying in 1788.