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... Scottish literary tradition and of Burns's relation to it . Burns's relation to the Scottish literary past and to the situation of Scottish culture in his own day accounts for his split personality . The latter half of the eighteenth ...
... Scottish literary tradition and of Burns's relation to it . Burns's relation to the Scottish literary past and to the situation of Scottish culture in his own day accounts for his split personality . The latter half of the eighteenth ...
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... Scottish culture was threatened by a series of events beginning in the latter part of the sixteenth century . The Reformation came to Scotland more violently than it came to England , and pre- cipitated more than a century of bitter ...
... Scottish culture was threatened by a series of events beginning in the latter part of the sixteenth century . The Reformation came to Scotland more violently than it came to England , and pre- cipitated more than a century of bitter ...
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... Scottish music and antiquarian interest in Scottish folk - poetry did something to keep Scottish national feeling alive , but it must be remembered that the arbiters of literary taste in Edinburgh in the middle and late eighteenth cen ...
... Scottish music and antiquarian interest in Scottish folk - poetry did something to keep Scottish national feeling alive , but it must be remembered that the arbiters of literary taste in Edinburgh in the middle and late eighteenth cen ...
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