Robert BurnsPresents a definitive and complete appraisal of Robert Burns and his poetry. |
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... critical practice which was to prove dangerous for Scottish literature . However ingenious or adequate as a theoretical statement of the position a work like Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric or Kames's Elements of Criticism might be , the ...
... critical practice which was to prove dangerous for Scottish literature . However ingenious or adequate as a theoretical statement of the position a work like Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric or Kames's Elements of Criticism might be , the ...
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... critical practice , however brilliant Scottish critical theory might be at this time . We should remember also that standard English was in large measure a foreign tongue to many of the literati ( even David Hume submitted his ...
... critical practice , however brilliant Scottish critical theory might be at this time . We should remember also that standard English was in large measure a foreign tongue to many of the literati ( even David Hume submitted his ...
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... critical skill in distinguishing foppery & conceit , from real passion & nature . Whether the following song will stand the test , I will not pretend to say , because it is MY OWN ; only I can say it was , at the time , real . SONG ...
... critical skill in distinguishing foppery & conceit , from real passion & nature . Whether the following song will stand the test , I will not pretend to say , because it is MY OWN ; only I can say it was , at the time , real . SONG ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
Copyright | |
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