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... nature of Burns's literary achievement and perpe- tuates a quite unreal and preposterously sentimentalized pic- ture of the man and the poet . The modern Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid has complained that the Burns cult has denied his ...
... nature of Burns's literary achievement and perpe- tuates a quite unreal and preposterously sentimentalized pic- ture of the man and the poet . The modern Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid has complained that the Burns cult has denied his ...
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... nature of the Scottish literary tradition and of Burns's relation to it . Burns's relation to the Scottish literary past and to the situation of Scottish culture in his own day accounts for his split personality . The latter half of the ...
... nature of the Scottish literary tradition and of Burns's relation to it . Burns's relation to the Scottish literary past and to the situation of Scottish culture in his own day accounts for his split personality . The latter half of the ...
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... nature will have its way even in the midst of Calvinist thunderings on the one hand and less orthodox ' moderate ' pleading for good works on the other . The concluding stanza , with its deliberate confusion of theological , biblical ...
... nature will have its way even in the midst of Calvinist thunderings on the one hand and less orthodox ' moderate ' pleading for good works on the other . The concluding stanza , with its deliberate confusion of theological , biblical ...
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