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Page 327
... chorus would in some degree spoil the effect ; & shall certainly have none in my pro- jected song to it . — It is not , however , a case in point with Rothemurche : there , as in " Roy's wife of Aldivaloch , " a chorus , to my taste ...
... chorus would in some degree spoil the effect ; & shall certainly have none in my pro- jected song to it . — It is not , however , a case in point with Rothemurche : there , as in " Roy's wife of Aldivaloch , " a chorus , to my taste ...
Page 352
... chorus . The earlier version , which has the same chorus , is really quite a different poem , much more folklike in idiom and situation , and preserving a considerable amount of the folk poem on which it was based . Burns never claimed ...
... chorus . The earlier version , which has the same chorus , is really quite a different poem , much more folklike in idiom and situation , and preserving a considerable amount of the folk poem on which it was based . Burns never claimed ...
Page 362
... chorus ends with " my jo " instead of " my Dear . " In the interleaved Museum Burns appended a note to the twenty- fifth song , which was the earlier " Auld Lang Syne " as printed by Ramsay : " The original and by much the best set of ...
... chorus ends with " my jo " instead of " my Dear . " In the interleaved Museum Burns appended a note to the twenty- fifth song , which was the earlier " Auld Lang Syne " as printed by Ramsay : " The original and by much the best set of ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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