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... poetic achievement which accounts for it . Scotland has no other national figure to compare with Burns ; not even Robert the Bruce , who led Scotland in her successful war of independence against the English , holds a place in the ...
... poetic achievement which accounts for it . Scotland has no other national figure to compare with Burns ; not even Robert the Bruce , who led Scotland in her successful war of independence against the English , holds a place in the ...
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... poetic idiom than had been seen for some time : but he died at the age of twenty - four , leaving only a handful of promising Scots poems . Burns , whose ambitions as a poet in Scots were nourished by his reading of Ramsay and , to a ...
... poetic idiom than had been seen for some time : but he died at the age of twenty - four , leaving only a handful of promising Scots poems . Burns , whose ambitions as a poet in Scots were nourished by his reading of Ramsay and , to a ...
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... poetic splendour that cannot be matched in the literature of any other country . And he not only rescued and preserved the words ; he also took the mass of song tunes and dance tunes and saw to it that they each had words properly ...
... poetic splendour that cannot be matched in the literature of any other country . And he not only rescued and preserved the words ; he also took the mass of song tunes and dance tunes and saw to it that they each had words properly ...
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