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... Museum , which eventually led to Burns's becoming the virtual editor of the work . Johnson had no qualifications for this undertaking except enthusiasm , and even that eventually began to wane , so that Burns had to keep prodding him ...
... Museum , which eventually led to Burns's becoming the virtual editor of the work . Johnson had no qualifications for this undertaking except enthusiasm , and even that eventually began to wane , so that Burns had to keep prodding him ...
Page 320
... 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 printed by David Herd , where it will be found as " My Love Was Born in Aberdeen ...
... 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 printed by David Herd , where it will be found as " My Love Was Born in Aberdeen ...
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... Museum , though some in later volumes than the third - forty - seven are demonstrably either by Burns or altered by him , and others may have received his editorial attention . Yet many of these forty - seven have never been included in ...
... Museum , though some in later volumes than the third - forty - seven are demonstrably either by Burns or altered by him , and others may have received his editorial attention . Yet many of these forty - seven have never been included in ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
Copyright | |
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