{"date":"August 5","id":"08-05","intro":["“Cotter’s Saturday Night” for generations to come will remain the choicest picture of Scotch home life. Into this poem Burns instills the sense of all-pervading peace and happiness that comes at the end of a well-spent day."],"minutes":8,"readings":[{"author":"Robert Burns","end":140,"start":134,"volume":6,"work":"Cotters’ Saturday Night"}],"slug":"august-5","status":"proofread","title":"Joys of the Simple Life","url":"/harvard-classics/august-5/","words":1500}