Robert BurnsPresents a definitive and complete appraisal of Robert Burns and his poetry. |
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... poetic achievement rather than as a biographical work . How- ever , in my endeavor to explain his development as a poet and the forces that helped to condition this development , I have been drawn to some degree into biography . Thus I ...
... poetic achievement rather than as a biographical work . How- ever , in my endeavor to explain his development as a poet and the forces that helped to condition this development , I have been drawn to some degree into biography . Thus I ...
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... poetic fame ? busily hollows Then farewel hopes o ' laurel - boughs , To garland my poetic brows ! Henceforth I'll rove where busy ploughs Are whistling thrang , An ' teach the lanely heights an ' howes My rustic sang . He proceeds to ...
... poetic fame ? busily hollows Then farewel hopes o ' laurel - boughs , To garland my poetic brows ! Henceforth I'll rove where busy ploughs Are whistling thrang , An ' teach the lanely heights an ' howes My rustic sang . He proceeds to ...
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... poetic diction ; and the " Epitaph " which follows is of no great interest or poetic distinction , though there is a certain ingenuity in the rhymes . The “ Lament of Mary Queen of Scots on the Approach of Spring " was ( as he wrote to ...
... poetic diction ; and the " Epitaph " which follows is of no great interest or poetic distinction , though there is a certain ingenuity in the rhymes . The “ Lament of Mary Queen of Scots on the Approach of Spring " was ( as he wrote to ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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