Robert BurnsPresents a definitive and complete appraisal of Robert Burns and his poetry. |
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... beginning to attempt figuring in the learned world , produces as yet so few works of reputation , that it is scarce possible a paper which criticizes upon them chiefly , should interest the public for any considerable time . ” He ...
... beginning to attempt figuring in the learned world , produces as yet so few works of reputation , that it is scarce possible a paper which criticizes upon them chiefly , should interest the public for any considerable time . ” He ...
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... beginning - How are Thy servants blest , O Lord ! ' I particularly remember one half - stanza which was music to my boy- ish ears- ' For though in dreadful whirls we hung , High on the broken wave'— I met with these pieces in Mason's ...
... beginning - How are Thy servants blest , O Lord ! ' I particularly remember one half - stanza which was music to my boy- ish ears- ' For though in dreadful whirls we hung , High on the broken wave'— I met with these pieces in Mason's ...
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... beginning with the second . ) In the next stanza the verse is lighter and not quite so well adapted to the elaborate Spenserian stanza ( Burns would have done better to use Fergusson's simpler form ) : by - and - by drive ; heedful run ...
... beginning with the second . ) In the next stanza the verse is lighter and not quite so well adapted to the elaborate Spenserian stanza ( Burns would have done better to use Fergusson's simpler form ) : by - and - by drive ; heedful run ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
Copyright | |
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