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... volume of his poems at the nearby town of Kilmarnock . It was entitled Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect , and appeared on 31 July 1786. Its success was immediate and overwhelm- ing . Simple country folk and sophisticated Edinburgh ...
... volume of his poems at the nearby town of Kilmarnock . It was entitled Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect , and appeared on 31 July 1786. Its success was immediate and overwhelm- ing . Simple country folk and sophisticated Edinburgh ...
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... volume in order not to shock his genteel audience . He omitted ' The Ordination ' a brilliant satire on Ayrshire church politics in the same stanza as ' The Holy Fair ' and done with greater verve and dexterity . He omitted the ...
... volume in order not to shock his genteel audience . He omitted ' The Ordination ' a brilliant satire on Ayrshire church politics in the same stanza as ' The Holy Fair ' and done with greater verve and dexterity . He omitted the ...
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... Volume V contains Hogg's Life of Burns : much of it is the sheerest invention . THE LIFE AND WORKS ( Library Edition ) , edited by R. Chambers . 4 vols . Edinburgh ( 1856-7 ; revised by W. Wallace , 1896 ) . Based on careful original ...
... Volume V contains Hogg's Life of Burns : much of it is the sheerest invention . THE LIFE AND WORKS ( Library Edition ) , edited by R. Chambers . 4 vols . Edinburgh ( 1856-7 ; revised by W. Wallace , 1896 ) . Based on careful original ...
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