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... England that Burns is in Scotland . Indeed , I can think of no country that has made a poet into a national hero in quite the same way that Scotland has done with Burns . There are two principal reasons for the special place Burns has ...
... England that Burns is in Scotland . Indeed , I can think of no country that has made a poet into a national hero in quite the same way that Scotland has done with Burns . There are two principal reasons for the special place Burns has ...
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... England , and pre- cipitated more than a century of bitter controversy and sometimes of sharp civil conflict ; the Puritan suspicion of secular literature which it brought with it blighted Scottish drama and drove much folk literature ...
... England , and pre- cipitated more than a century of bitter controversy and sometimes of sharp civil conflict ; the Puritan suspicion of secular literature which it brought with it blighted Scottish drama and drove much folk literature ...
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... England ; his knowledge of Scottish literature was in his childhood confined to orally transmitted folk - songs and folk - tales to- gether with a modernization of the late fifteenth - century poem Wallace which dealt rather naïvely ...
... England ; his knowledge of Scottish literature was in his childhood confined to orally transmitted folk - songs and folk - tales to- gether with a modernization of the late fifteenth - century poem Wallace which dealt rather naïvely ...
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