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... Burns scholarship and some interesting further attempts have been made to provide a re- valuation of Burns's poetic achievement in the light of modern critical ideas and of the recent history and present needs of Scottish poetry .
... Burns scholarship and some interesting further attempts have been made to provide a re- valuation of Burns's poetic achievement in the light of modern critical ideas and of the recent history and present needs of Scottish poetry .
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This is no ploughman poet artlessly warbling of what he sees around him , but a conscious artist deliberately exploiting the resources of his native dialect and a literary tradition of his people to present a picture , half - humorous ...
This is no ploughman poet artlessly warbling of what he sees around him , but a conscious artist deliberately exploiting the resources of his native dialect and a literary tradition of his people to present a picture , half - humorous ...
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his own countryside what the great poets of old did for theirs - 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 ...
his own countryside what the great poets of old did for theirs - 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 ...
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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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