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... of his poetry in Scots shows clearly the dilemma of a Scottish poet working with one eye turned to a genteel London audience and the other to the rustic vulgarities of his own country . Scots verse became a dialect verse ΙΟ BURNS.
... of his poetry in Scots shows clearly the dilemma of a Scottish poet working with one eye turned to a genteel London audience and the other to the rustic vulgarities of his own country . Scots verse became a dialect verse ΙΟ BURNS.
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... shows how the eighteenth - century antiquarian movement fed the creative impulse . Burns developed rapidly throughout 1784 and 1785 as an ' occasional ' poet who more and more turned to verse to express his emotions of love , friendship ...
... shows how the eighteenth - century antiquarian movement fed the creative impulse . Burns developed rapidly throughout 1784 and 1785 as an ' occasional ' poet who more and more turned to verse to express his emotions of love , friendship ...
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... shows considerable technical accomplishment in the hand- ling of the stanza , but the introduction of hollow sentimen- talities and rhetorical exclamations at critical moments spoils the work as a whole . V Burns selected the Kilmarnock ...
... shows considerable technical accomplishment in the hand- ling of the stanza , but the introduction of hollow sentimen- talities and rhetorical exclamations at critical moments spoils the work as a whole . V Burns selected the Kilmarnock ...
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