Robert BurnsPresents a definitive and complete appraisal of Robert Burns and his poetry. |
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... folk songs , earlier and con- temporary imitations of ballads and folk songs , and the few bril- liant examples of sixteenth - century verse , that is , of Scottish poetry written just before the swamping of Scots literature by the ...
... folk songs , earlier and con- temporary imitations of ballads and folk songs , and the few bril- liant examples of sixteenth - century verse , that is , of Scottish poetry written just before the swamping of Scots literature by the ...
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... folk emotion , unrealistic and often literary in its application ; thus the Jacobite movement was more successful in encouraging a revival of folk song and imitation folk song than it was as a political movement . ) Older works , both folk ...
... folk emotion , unrealistic and often literary in its application ; thus the Jacobite movement was more successful in encouraging a revival of folk song and imitation folk song than it was as a political movement . ) Older works , both folk ...
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... folk themes , too — the young girl refus- ing to marry an old man ( “ An Auld Man Shall Never Daunton Me " ) , the old mal marié theme ( " Whistle o'er the Lave O't " ) , simple abuse ( " Sic a Wife As Willie Had " ) , and sometimes ...
... folk themes , too — the young girl refus- ing to marry an old man ( “ An Auld Man Shall Never Daunton Me " ) , the old mal marié theme ( " Whistle o'er the Lave O't " ) , simple abuse ( " Sic a Wife As Willie Had " ) , and sometimes ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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