Robert Burns (Scottish poet) had a romantic but unconsummated relationship with Agnes M’Lehose in Edinburgh. They exchanged love letters and poems using pen names. When Agnes went to Jamaica to reunite with her estranged husband, she found him with another woman and returned to Edinburgh. Burns, heartbroken, then sought companionship through a local club called the Crochallan Fencibles, but his radical views on class, religion, and politics eventually got him shunned from Edinburgh society.

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