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... Scottish literary tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages . To understand how Burns's achievement was split in this and indeed how his character both as man and as poet way , was torn in different directions , we must have some ...
... Scottish literary tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages . To understand how Burns's achievement was split in this and indeed how his character both as man and as poet way , was torn in different directions , we must have some ...
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... poets , editors , and publishers to pre- serve what could be collected of older Scottish poetry and to use Scots ( either in the form of regional dialects or of deliberate imitations of the older literary language ) in new verse of ...
... poets , editors , and publishers to pre- serve what could be collected of older Scottish poetry and to use Scots ( either in the form of regional dialects or of deliberate imitations of the older literary language ) in new verse of ...
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... Scottish poet before Burns made a notable effort to produce a native Scottish poetry that was something more than merely rustic or bacchanalian or humorous , that was both fully Scottish and fully contem- porary . This was Robert ...
... Scottish poet before Burns made a notable effort to produce a native Scottish poetry that was something more than merely rustic or bacchanalian or humorous , that was both fully Scottish and fully contem- porary . This was Robert ...
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