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Page 229
... effect . The meaning of " The Jolly Beggars " is greater than the sum of the meaning of the various songs ; the setting provides its own amplifica- tion , while the cumulative effect of the introduction of the charac- ters and their ...
... effect . The meaning of " The Jolly Beggars " is greater than the sum of the meaning of the various songs ; the setting provides its own amplifica- tion , while the cumulative effect of the introduction of the charac- ters and their ...
Page 327
... 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 , goes well enough . As to the chorus ...
... 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 , goes well enough . As to the chorus ...
Page 335
... effect of awkward imitation of the antique , but in this poem ( as in many of Burns's songs where he ends the line with monosyllables such as “ O ” ) there is nothing of the synthetic folk element that we get in many of the nineteenth ...
... effect of awkward imitation of the antique , but in this poem ( as in many of Burns's songs where he ends the line with monosyllables such as “ O ” ) there is nothing of the synthetic folk element that we get in many of the nineteenth ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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