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Page 105
... volume ; it was to be his legacy to his native country before he left it for Jamaica , something by which Scotland might remember her lost poet . That the volume would be remembered , he seems never to have doubted . “ I can truly say ...
... volume ; it was to be his legacy to his native country before he left it for Jamaica , something by which Scotland might remember her lost poet . That the volume would be remembered , he seems never to have doubted . “ I can truly say ...
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... volume . It was substantially the Kilmarnock volume with new poems added , and some minor changes in the spelling of Scots forms in the old poems . These new poems were for the most part , however , poems which he had already written ...
... volume . It was substantially the Kilmarnock volume with new poems added , and some minor changes in the spelling of Scots forms in the old poems . These new poems were for the most part , however , poems which he had already written ...
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... volume were by Burns . Volume four appeared in 1792 , with about half of its hundred songs by Burns , and the fifth volume - Burns having in the meantime undertaken to help also with George Thomson's Select Scottish Airs - not until ...
... volume were by Burns . Volume four appeared in 1792 , with about half of its hundred songs by Burns , and the fifth volume - Burns having in the meantime undertaken to help also with George Thomson's Select Scottish Airs - not until ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
Copyright | |
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