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... critical ideas and of the recent history and present needs of Scottish poetry . The long needed definitive modern edition of Burns's poems is now under way , in the capable hands of James Kinsley ; The Merry Muses of Caledonia is at ...
... critical ideas and of the recent history and present needs of Scottish poetry . The long needed definitive modern edition of Burns's poems is now under way , in the capable hands of James Kinsley ; The Merry Muses of Caledonia is at ...
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... critical practice which was to prove dangerous for Scottish literature . However ingenious or adequate as a theoretical statement of the position a work like Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric or Kames's Elements of Criticism might be , the ...
... critical practice which was to prove dangerous for Scottish literature . However ingenious or adequate as a theoretical statement of the position a work like Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric or Kames's Elements of Criticism might be , the ...
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... critical theorists than practical critics . Not that the language of Burns was the spontaneous vernacular ; in his best poems it is often English sprinkled with Scots . But the com- promise language in which Burns so often wrote ...
... critical theorists than practical critics . Not that the language of Burns was the spontaneous vernacular ; in his best poems it is often English sprinkled with Scots . But the com- promise language in which Burns so often wrote ...
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