Robert BurnsPresents a definitive and complete appraisal of Robert Burns and his poetry. |
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... tion of the literati . The Scottish poets who worked in the fringes of the English neoclassic tradition did not as a rule achieve anything more than frigid exercises in a foreign idiom . Anyone who looks at that preposterous collection ...
... tion of the literati . The Scottish poets who worked in the fringes of the English neoclassic tradition did not as a rule achieve anything more than frigid exercises in a foreign idiom . Anyone who looks at that preposterous collection ...
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... tion of these lines takes no account of this very conscious poetic dic- tion - he sees it simply as English . Burns is seeking a form of ex- pression which will set the sternness of objective fact against the warm , cosy , and self ...
... tion of these lines takes no account of this very conscious poetic dic- tion - he sees it simply as English . Burns is seeking a form of ex- pression which will set the sternness of objective fact against the warm , cosy , and self ...
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... tion would be dangerous . " If I could be of any service to Dr Mcgill , " he wrote to John Logan , " I would do it though it should be at a much greater expence than irritating a few bigotted Priests ; but as I am afraid , serving him ...
... tion would be dangerous . " If I could be of any service to Dr Mcgill , " he wrote to John Logan , " I would do it though it should be at a much greater expence than irritating a few bigotted Priests ; but as I am afraid , serving him ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
Copyright | |
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