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Page 100
... remarkable volume - one of the most remarkable first volumes ever published by a British poet - and left no doubt of Burns's poetic stature . A fair conception of the kind of poet Burns had by this time become , as well as some idea of ...
... remarkable volume - one of the most remarkable first volumes ever published by a British poet - and left no doubt of Burns's poetic stature . A fair conception of the kind of poet Burns had by this time become , as well as some idea of ...
Page 278
... remarkable skill . By keeping the tone and imagery of a characteristic sentimental piece in the genteel tradition , and at the same time describing in meticulous detail and with outrageous obscenity the love making of Dame Nature and ...
... remarkable skill . By keeping the tone and imagery of a characteristic sentimental piece in the genteel tradition , and at the same time describing in meticulous detail and with outrageous obscenity the love making of Dame Nature and ...
Page 287
... remarkable outburst , and after receiving it Thomson saw that he could count on the poet for much more than improved words for some twenty or twenty - five melodies . It was not long before Thomson , under the influence of Burns's ...
... remarkable outburst , and after receiving it Thomson saw that he could count on the poet for much more than improved words for some twenty or twenty - five melodies . It was not long before Thomson , under the influence of Burns's ...
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