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... his poetry in Scots shows clearly the dilemma of a Scottish poet working with one eye turned to a genteel London audience and the other to the rustic vulgarities of his own country . Scots verse became a dialect verse ΙΟ BURNS.
... his poetry in Scots shows clearly the dilemma of a Scottish poet working with one eye turned to a genteel London audience and the other to the rustic vulgarities of his own country . Scots verse became a dialect verse ΙΟ BURNS.
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... clearly shows how the eighteenth - century antiquarian movement fed the creative impulse . Burns developed rapidly throughout 1784 and 1785 as an ' occasional ' poet who more and more turned to verse to express his emotions of love ...
... clearly shows how the eighteenth - century antiquarian movement fed the creative impulse . Burns developed rapidly throughout 1784 and 1785 as an ' occasional ' poet who more and more turned to verse to express his emotions of love ...
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... clearly his object of showing off the Scottish peasantry for the approval and edification of men of feeling in Edinburgh . The poem contains some admirable descriptive passages and shows considerable technical accomplishment in the hand ...
... clearly his object of showing off the Scottish peasantry for the approval and edification of men of feeling in Edinburgh . The poem contains some admirable descriptive passages and shows considerable technical accomplishment in the hand ...
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