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... reveal that from the beginning of his activity as a poet he was interested in the technical problems of versification . If he never learned to distinguish emotional control from emotional self - indulgence in eighteenth- century English ...
... reveal that from the beginning of his activity as a poet he was interested in the technical problems of versification . If he never learned to distinguish emotional control from emotional self - indulgence in eighteenth- century English ...
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... revealed in his satiric and humorous poems and in the abandonment to the moment of experience which we find celebrated in many of his best songs . Burns the song - writer was hardly represented in the Kilmarnock edition ; most of his ...
... revealed in his satiric and humorous poems and in the abandonment to the moment of experience which we find celebrated in many of his best songs . Burns the song - writer was hardly represented in the Kilmarnock edition ; most of his ...
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... reveals it when we least expect it : O thou that in the heavens does dwell ! Wha , as it pleases best Thysel , Sends ane ... revealed . Holy Willie is not a conscious hypocrite . When he attributes his lust to God's protective desire to ...
... reveals it when we least expect it : O thou that in the heavens does dwell ! Wha , as it pleases best Thysel , Sends ane ... revealed . Holy Willie is not a conscious hypocrite . When he attributes his lust to God's protective desire to ...
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