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... Johnson , whom Burns had first met in Edinburgh the previous April , when Johnson was about to bring out the first volume of his Scots Musical Museum . Johnson was a humble and ill - educated lover of Scottish songs , who , having in ...
... Johnson , whom Burns had first met in Edinburgh the previous April , when Johnson was about to bring out the first volume of his Scots Musical Museum . Johnson was a humble and ill - educated lover of Scottish songs , who , having in ...
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... 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 qualifications for this ...
... 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 qualifications for this ...
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... Johnson and is full of suggestions concerning where the best texts of older poems were to be found , that Burns was editor , adapter , arranger , and creator for Johnson's Museum to an extent that he never publicly admitted . After the ...
... Johnson and is full of suggestions concerning where the best texts of older poems were to be found , that Burns was editor , adapter , arranger , and creator for Johnson's Museum to an extent that he never publicly admitted . After the ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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