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... present needs of Scottish poetry . The long needed definitive modern edition of Burns's poems is now under way , in the capable hands of James Kinsley ; The Merry Muses of Caledonia is at last freely available , edited by James Barke ...
... present needs of Scottish poetry . The long needed definitive modern edition of Burns's poems is now under way , in the capable hands of James Kinsley ; The Merry Muses of Caledonia is at last freely available , edited by James Barke ...
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... present a picture , half - humorous , half - ironic , both of animals as men and ( by implication ) of men as animals . ( The irony glances obliquely from ' hurdies ' ; the description had started off like that of a knight's plume or a ...
... present a picture , half - humorous , half - ironic , both of animals as men and ( by implication ) of men as animals . ( The irony glances obliquely from ' hurdies ' ; the description had started off like that of a knight's plume or a ...
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... present it to the world . The view of nature which Burns presents in describing the aspects of his native countryside which constituted the subject of his verse is not at all that of the Romantic poets . There is in Burns no feeling for ...
... present it to the world . The view of nature which Burns presents in describing the aspects of his native countryside which constituted the subject of his verse is not at all that of the Romantic poets . There is in Burns no feeling for ...
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