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... greatest verses can be understood wherever English is understood , for when he rose to universal statement he naturally used the universal language . In effect , Burns , the poet of Scotland and one of the great English poets , is the ...
... greatest verses can be understood wherever English is understood , for when he rose to universal statement he naturally used the universal language . In effect , Burns , the poet of Scotland and one of the great English poets , is the ...
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... greatest kind of poetry - in any case , these are parts of songs , which must be sung to their proper tunes to be properly appreciated ; but it does illustrate a strain in Burns that accounts for his special kind of appeal . In this ...
... greatest kind of poetry - in any case , these are parts of songs , which must be sung to their proper tunes to be properly appreciated ; but it does illustrate a strain in Burns that accounts for his special kind of appeal . In this ...
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... greatest of his satiric poems he deli- berately omitted from the Kilmarnock volume in order not to shock his genteel audience . He omitted ' The Ordination ' , a brilliant satire on Ayrshire church politics in the same stanza as ' The ...
... greatest of his satiric poems he deli- berately omitted from the Kilmarnock volume in order not to shock his genteel audience . He omitted ' The Ordination ' , a brilliant satire on Ayrshire church politics in the same stanza as ' The ...
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