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Page 110
... poem in the Kilmarnock volume ( again , not one of the earliest poems , but written at the end of 1785 or early in ... poem is a bacchanalian poem , with a deliberately induced and not very profound roistering mood . But like ' The Twa ...
... poem in the Kilmarnock volume ( again , not one of the earliest poems , but written at the end of 1785 or early in ... poem is a bacchanalian poem , with a deliberately induced and not very profound roistering mood . But like ' The Twa ...
Page 156
... poem as the ' Epistle to a Young Friend ' , one of the most engaging and spontaneous of his poems , in which he jots ... poem was originally intended for another friend , William Niven of Kirkoswald , but this is very doubt- ful , and in ...
... poem as the ' Epistle to a Young Friend ' , one of the most engaging and spontaneous of his poems , in which he jots ... poem was originally intended for another friend , William Niven of Kirkoswald , but this is very doubt- ful , and in ...
Page 302
... poem of this kind does not tell us very much . This is a love poem set in an atmosphere of history history with all its ceremony and violence – and of nature , with all its violence ; and through it all the opening gesture of drinking a ...
... poem of this kind does not tell us very much . This is a love poem set in an atmosphere of history history with all its ceremony and violence – and of nature , with all its violence ; and through it all the opening gesture of drinking a ...
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