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Its verse form became a favourite of Scottish poets and is still associated with Scottish literature by the general reader . There were many other types of poetry represented in Watson's collection which were to inspire Ramsay ...
Its verse form became a favourite of Scottish poets and is still associated with Scottish literature by the general reader . There were many other types of poetry represented in Watson's collection which were to inspire Ramsay ...
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This volume introduced his readers to the work of Scotland's first Golden Age , poetry produced at a time when the nation was independent and its culture , though national , was at the same time truly European .
This volume introduced his readers to the work of Scotland's first Golden Age , poetry produced at a time when the nation was independent and its culture , though national , was at the same time truly European .
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Therefore those writers and critics who avoided the dualism by sticking to the native tradition in which they were really at home produced both better poetry and better criticism of that poetry . Intellectual works , such as ...
Therefore those writers and critics who avoided the dualism by sticking to the native tradition in which they were really at home produced both better poetry and better criticism of that poetry . Intellectual works , such as ...
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| Title | Robert Burns |
| Author | David Daiches |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1966 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 25 Apr 2006 |
| Length | 334 pages |
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