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... Kilmarnock . It was entitled Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect , and appeared on 31 July 1786. Its success was immediate and overwhelm- ing . Simple country folk and sophisticated Edinburgh critics alike hailed it , and the upshot ...
... Kilmarnock . It was entitled Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect , and appeared on 31 July 1786. Its success was immediate and overwhelm- ing . Simple country folk and sophisticated Edinburgh critics alike hailed it , and the upshot ...
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... Kilmarnock edition ; most of his songs were still unwritten , but in any case the Edinburgh literati did not consider songs as one of the higher kinds of poetry . Burns the satirist was revealed in some degree , but the greatest of his ...
... Kilmarnock edition ; most of his songs were still unwritten , but in any case the Edinburgh literati did not consider songs as one of the higher kinds of poetry . Burns the satirist was revealed in some degree , but the greatest of his ...
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... Kilmarnock volume his remarkable anarchist cantata , " The Jolly Beggars ' , in which he assembled a group of social ... Kilmarnock selection . Substantially , it was by the Kilmarnock poems that Burns was known in his life- time . He ...
... Kilmarnock volume his remarkable anarchist cantata , " The Jolly Beggars ' , in which he assembled a group of social ... Kilmarnock selection . Substantially , it was by the Kilmarnock poems that Burns was known in his life- time . He ...
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