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... century , when the Scottish Chaucerians wrote some of the best poetry then being produced in Europe , its second and hardly less great age was the Golden Age of the eighteenth century . X ( Between 1740 and 1830 Scotland produced an ...
... century , when the Scottish Chaucerians wrote some of the best poetry then being produced in Europe , its second and hardly less great age was the Golden Age of the eighteenth century . X ( Between 1740 and 1830 Scotland produced an ...
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... century Scotland . Who were these wits , and what , if anything , had they to do with the revival of interest in Scottish poetry and Scottish literary traditions which Ramsay did so much to encourage ? The wits were , of course , that ...
... century Scotland . Who were these wits , and what , if anything , had they to do with the revival of interest in Scottish poetry and Scottish literary traditions which Ramsay did so much to encourage ? The wits were , of course , that ...
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... century religion in Scotland , but religion , dominant as it was in so many aspects of the nation's life , had not any considerable influence on philosophy . Thus throughout the century we get a series of liberalizing movements in the ...
... century religion in Scotland , but religion , dominant as it was in so many aspects of the nation's life , had not any considerable influence on philosophy . Thus throughout the century we get a series of liberalizing movements in the ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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