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David Daiches. CHAPTER ONE THE SCOTTISH LITERARY TRADITION NO LYRIC poet has been as much talked about and as often misun- derstood as Robert Burns . In the conventional academic literary histories he is regarded as a " pre - Romantic ...
David Daiches. CHAPTER ONE THE SCOTTISH LITERARY TRADITION NO LYRIC poet has been as much talked about and as often misun- derstood as Robert Burns . In the conventional academic literary histories he is regarded as a " pre - Romantic ...
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... literary principles with refer- ence to the passions , and this made for a certain kind of corruption in literary and , critical practice which was to prove dangerous for Scottish literature . However ingenious or adequate as a ...
... literary principles with refer- ence to the passions , and this made for a certain kind of corruption in literary and , critical practice which was to prove dangerous for Scottish literature . However ingenious or adequate as a ...
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... literary form he used . That it was a literary form and no haphazard rhyming by a rustic versifier is made clear by any rea- sonably careful reading of the poem . " The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie " is a mock testament- -a form ...
... literary form he used . That it was a literary form and no haphazard rhyming by a rustic versifier is made clear by any rea- sonably careful reading of the poem . " The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie " is a mock testament- -a form ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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