The answer is "His failure as a young man in family plantation".
Explanation:
He was a Scottish poet, author, and literary critic who wrote both in English and Scots. He served as a shepherd and farmhand as a young fellow and has been mainly self-educated by reading.
He worked as a shepherd and farmhand as a young man and was mainly self-educated by reading.
He was quite sensitive to the farmers' issues due to various his loss of friends crop as a young person.
