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Page 143
... verses carry the reader on with splendid ease ; we have only to set it beside some of the older Scottish verse epistles to see the nature of Burns's technical achievement . The " Familiar Epis- tles " between William Hamilton of ...
... verses carry the reader on with splendid ease ; we have only to set it beside some of the older Scottish verse epistles to see the nature of Burns's technical achievement . The " Familiar Epis- tles " between William Hamilton of ...
Page 156
... verse is not adequate to balance the stanza as a whole . The next verse is a curious mixture of Scots realism and eight- eenth - century convention , and it marks the beginning of a serious confusion in the poem : asks uncommon things ...
... verse is not adequate to balance the stanza as a whole . The next verse is a curious mixture of Scots realism and eight- eenth - century convention , and it marks the beginning of a serious confusion in the poem : asks uncommon things ...
Page 282
... verse form have achieved . Matthew Prior , who also used octosyllabic couplets for narrative poetry , had something of this ease and fluency , but Prior's verse tales have a city swagger about them , a deliberate air of a man about town ...
... verse form have achieved . Matthew Prior , who also used octosyllabic couplets for narrative poetry , had something of this ease and fluency , but Prior's verse tales have a city swagger about them , a deliberate air of a man about town ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
Copyright | |
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