Robert BurnsPresents a definitive and complete appraisal of Robert Burns and his poetry. |
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... kind . Yet it is not the complete picture . The other side is revealed in the poetry he was writing at this time , which included such lively songs as My father was a farmer upon the Carrick border O And carefully he bred me , in ...
... kind . Yet it is not the complete picture . The other side is revealed in the poetry he was writing at this time , which included such lively songs as My father was a farmer upon the Carrick border O And carefully he bred me , in ...
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... kind of admiration for the man who can combine the two with an air of such complete conviction . But there is ... kind of religion and of a kind of person . It needs to be read aloud with a good Scots accent and an uninhibited pulpit ...
... kind of admiration for the man who can combine the two with an air of such complete conviction . But there is ... kind of religion and of a kind of person . It needs to be read aloud with a good Scots accent and an uninhibited pulpit ...
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... kind of love song . The title and the stanza form are traditional , but the poem as Burns produced it is wholly original . The version of “ John Anderson My Jo " which appears in The Merry Muses represents the kind of older poem Burns ...
... kind of love song . The title and the stanza form are traditional , but the poem as Burns produced it is wholly original . The version of “ John Anderson My Jo " which appears in The Merry Muses represents the kind of older poem Burns ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
Copyright | |
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