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"No poet has achieved such sudden and popular popularity as Burns in Scotland," states the English Literary Encyclopedia. On January 25, Burns' birthday, Scots still traditionally gather as families and read their favorite works of their bard.
The real folk cult of Burns in Scotland somewhat resembles our cult of Shevchenko. And some of Burns's poems in the congenial translations of Mykola Lukash seem to be "fitted" into our literary tradition; it is not for nothing that there are so many similarities in the historical being of Scotland and Ukraine...