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Poor Mailie's Elegy ' , the poem immediately following , was certainly written with " The Epitaph of Habbie Simson ... was working with traditional materials even when he was writing an ' occasional ' poem prompted by a real incident .
Poor Mailie's Elegy ' , the poem immediately following , was certainly written with " The Epitaph of Habbie Simson ... was working with traditional materials even when he was writing an ' occasional ' poem prompted by a real incident .
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Poor Mailie's Elegy ' , the poem immediately following , was certainly written with ' The Epitaph of Habbie Simson ... was working with traditional materials even when he was writing an ' occasional ' poem prompted by a real incident .
Poor Mailie's Elegy ' , the poem immediately following , was certainly written with ' The Epitaph of Habbie Simson ... was working with traditional materials even when he was writing an ' occasional ' poem prompted by a real incident .
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A duty poem of a different kind was written by Burns in response to a request of a group of Jacobites to write them a ' Birthday Ode for 31st Decem- . ber , 1787 ' . Here he attempts to whip up Jacobite feeling in an ode modelled on ...
A duty poem of a different kind was written by Burns in response to a request of a group of Jacobites to write them a ' Birthday Ode for 31st Decem- . ber , 1787 ' . Here he attempts to whip up Jacobite feeling in an ode modelled on ...
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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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