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Page 95
... letter of April 3 , it seems clear that he had been thinking about publishing before the crisis with the Armours . ( It is impos- sible to date exactly Burns's first awareness of the Armours ' hostil- ity , but the letter to Hamilton ...
... letter of April 3 , it seems clear that he had been thinking about publishing before the crisis with the Armours . ( It is impos- sible to date exactly Burns's first awareness of the Armours ' hostil- ity , but the letter to Hamilton ...
Page 103
... letter ( which is undated ) was writ- ten just after Burns had received the news of Mary's death , and that " the madness of an intoxicated criminal under the hands of the executioner " reflected his feeling of remorse in this ...
... letter ( which is undated ) was writ- ten just after Burns had received the news of Mary's death , and that " the madness of an intoxicated criminal under the hands of the executioner " reflected his feeling of remorse in this ...
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... letter was unknown when Professor Ferguson edited the letters for the Clarendon Press , and the text in that edition is necessarily taken from Scott Douglas's edition . The Douglas text is both fragmentary and willfully inaccurate , as ...
... letter was unknown when Professor Ferguson edited the letters for the Clarendon Press , and the text in that edition is necessarily taken from Scott Douglas's edition . The Douglas text is both fragmentary and willfully inaccurate , as ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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