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... century was not a propitious time for a Scottish poet , and Burns's achievement becomes all the greater when one ... century Scottish poets , Robert Henryson and William Dunbar , had exercised and enriched the Scottish literary language ...
... century was not a propitious time for a Scottish poet , and Burns's achievement becomes all the greater when one ... century Scottish poets , Robert Henryson and William Dunbar , had exercised and enriched the Scottish literary language ...
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... century is the earliest ren- dering of Virgil into any branch of the English language . Unfortunately , the stability and integrity of Scottish culture was threatened by a series of events beginning in the latter part of the sixteenth ...
... century is the earliest ren- dering of Virgil into any branch of the English language . Unfortunately , the stability and integrity of Scottish culture was threatened by a series of events beginning in the latter part of the sixteenth ...
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... century editors , Burns was nevertheless in contact with the main tradition , and his development as a poet clearly shows how the eighteenth - century antiquarian movement fed the creative impulse . Burns developed rapidly throughout ...
... century editors , Burns was nevertheless in contact with the main tradition , and his development as a poet clearly shows how the eighteenth - century antiquarian movement fed the creative impulse . Burns developed rapidly throughout ...
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