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... Scottish folk tradition but also some at least of the traditions of Scottish ' art ' poetry both as they came to him through Fergusson and as he found them for himself in collections of older Scottish poetry . Though some significant ...
... Scottish folk tradition but also some at least of the traditions of Scottish ' art ' poetry both as they came to him through Fergusson and as he found them for himself in collections of older Scottish poetry . Though some significant ...
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... traditional Scottish mode . Burns here knows exactly what he is doing ; he is absorbed in his job as he writes , and does not look up at intervals to see whether Henry Macken- zie or some other member of the Edinburgh literati approves ...
... traditional Scottish mode . Burns here knows exactly what he is doing ; he is absorbed in his job as he writes , and does not look up at intervals to see whether Henry Macken- zie or some other member of the Edinburgh literati approves ...
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... traditional Scottish airs and to keep Johnson and Thomson going . He regarded this work as service to Scotland , and quixotically refused any payment./The only poem he wrote after his Edinburgh visit which showed a hitherto unsuspected ...
... traditional Scottish airs and to keep Johnson and Thomson going . He regarded this work as service to Scotland , and quixotically refused any payment./The only poem he wrote after his Edinburgh visit which showed a hitherto unsuspected ...
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