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... poet was ready with his poetic ammunition to support Hamilton's cause and make his persecutors ridiculous throughout the countryside . Aiken was both a man of the world and a sentimentalist ; he was genuinely fond of the young farmer- poet ...
... poet was ready with his poetic ammunition to support Hamilton's cause and make his persecutors ridiculous throughout the countryside . Aiken was both a man of the world and a sentimentalist ; he was genuinely fond of the young farmer- poet ...
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... poet - laureateship of Scotland had certain unhappy results . However , though he could produce artificial exercises of ... poetic : E'en then , a wish ( I mind its pow'r ) , A wish that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast ...
... poet - laureateship of Scotland had certain unhappy results . However , though he could produce artificial exercises of ... poetic : E'en then , a wish ( I mind its pow'r ) , A wish that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast ...
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... poet . The Kilmarnock volume remained the essential core of subsequent editions in the poet's life- time , the chief evidence to contemporaries of Burns's poetic abilities , and his chief claim to fame as a published poet . But to say ...
... poet . The Kilmarnock volume remained the essential core of subsequent editions in the poet's life- time , the chief evidence to contemporaries of Burns's poetic abilities , and his chief claim to fame as a published poet . But to say ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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