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Page 180
... Burns's Kilmarnock poems to have his own poems also printed by John Wilson at Kilmarnock . He lived on a farm about fourteen miles east of Mossgiel . Both poems to Lapraik follow the usual structure of Burns's verse epistles : first ...
... Burns's Kilmarnock poems to have his own poems also printed by John Wilson at Kilmarnock . He lived on a farm about fourteen miles east of Mossgiel . Both poems to Lapraik follow the usual structure of Burns's verse epistles : first ...
Page 318
... Burns's meeting with James Johnson in April , 1787 , and his subsequent undertaking to furnish Johnson with songs for his Scots Musical Museum , which eventually led to Burns's becoming the virtual editor of the work . Johnson had no ...
... Burns's meeting with James Johnson in April , 1787 , and his subsequent undertaking to furnish Johnson with songs for his Scots Musical Museum , which eventually led to Burns's becoming the virtual editor of the work . Johnson had no ...
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... Burns's list is " White Cockade , " which duly appears in the third volume of the Museum . If the Museum text ( among those described as " Mr. Burns's old words " ) be put beside an older version of this song ( for example , the version ...
... Burns's list is " White Cockade , " which duly appears in the third volume of the Museum . If the Museum text ( among those described as " Mr. Burns's old words " ) be put beside an older version of this song ( for example , the version ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
Copyright | |
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