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... Fair ' ( which is perhaps earlier than any of the preceding , though its date is uncertain ) , is the first of those in the Kilmarnock volume which show the full stature of Burns as a poet working in the Scots literary tradition . We ...
... Fair ' ( which is perhaps earlier than any of the preceding , though its date is uncertain ) , is the first of those in the Kilmarnock volume which show the full stature of Burns as a poet working in the Scots literary tradition . We ...
Page 123
... Fair ' are best seen when they are put aside by . side with the theologized love poems of the sixteenth century . Yet in a profounder sense Burns's position is conservative rather than revolu- tionary ; he was reaching back to an ...
... Fair ' are best seen when they are put aside by . side with the theologized love poems of the sixteenth century . Yet in a profounder sense Burns's position is conservative rather than revolu- tionary ; he was reaching back to an ...
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... Fair , ' a common phrase in the West of Scotland for a sacramental occasion ' , as Burns described it in his note to the poem in the Edinburgh edition , was a vast outdoor tent preaching ' held annually in connection with the communion ...
... Fair , ' a common phrase in the West of Scotland for a sacramental occasion ' , as Burns described it in his note to the poem in the Edinburgh edition , was a vast outdoor tent preaching ' held annually in connection with the communion ...
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