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... 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 ... literary tradition and a literary language of their own : 8 BURNS.
... 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 ... literary tradition and a literary language of their own : 8 BURNS.
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David Daiches. literary tradition and a literary language of their own : they were also European in their perspective , with close cultural links with the Continent , especially France . They drew in their own way on the common European ...
David Daiches. literary tradition and a literary language of their own : they were also European in their perspective , with close cultural links with the Continent , especially France . They drew in their own way on the common European ...
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... literary language disintegrated , for the literary language was now generally English . But if the Scotsman's ordinary language was con- ducted in Scots and his formal utterances were made in English , this meant that he spoke what was ...
... literary language disintegrated , for the literary language was now generally English . But if the Scotsman's ordinary language was con- ducted in Scots and his formal utterances were made in English , this meant that he spoke what was ...
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