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... poem . This attitudinizing runs right through " To a Mountain Daisy ' , a forced and sentimental poem in which he laments the fate of the crushed flower ( also turned down with the plough ) and compares it to that of a betrayed maiden ...
... poem . This attitudinizing runs right through " To a Mountain Daisy ' , a forced and sentimental poem in which he laments the fate of the crushed flower ( also turned down with the plough ) and compares it to that of a betrayed maiden ...
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... poem which Burns himself described as a ' burlesque lamentation on a quarrel between two reverend Calvinists ' . And he omitted Holy Willie's Prayer ' , the greatest of all his satiric poems and one of the great verse satires of all ...
... poem which Burns himself described as a ' burlesque lamentation on a quarrel between two reverend Calvinists ' . And he omitted Holy Willie's Prayer ' , the greatest of all his satiric poems and one of the great verse satires of all ...
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... poem he wrote after his Edinburgh visit which showed a hitherto unsuspected side of his poetic genius was ' Tam o ' Shanter ' , a magnificently spirited narrative poem based on a folk legend associated with Alloway Kirk . The poem is in ...
... poem he wrote after his Edinburgh visit which showed a hitherto unsuspected side of his poetic genius was ' Tam o ' Shanter ' , a magnificently spirited narrative poem based on a folk legend associated with Alloway Kirk . The poem is in ...
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