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... of Burns scholarship and some interesting further attempts have been made to provide a revaluation of Burns's poetic achievement in the light of modern critical ideas and of the recent history and present needs of Scottish poetry .
... of Burns scholarship and some interesting further attempts have been made to provide a revaluation of Burns's poetic achievement in the light of modern critical ideas and of the recent history and present needs of Scottish poetry .
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One should also note that many of the Scottish philosophers of the period explained their philosophical or literary principles with reference to the passions , and this made for a certain kind of corruption in literary and critical ...
One should also note that many of the Scottish philosophers of the period explained their philosophical or literary principles with reference to the passions , and this made for a certain kind of corruption in literary and critical ...
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The literati were better philosophers than literary critics and better 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 ...
The literati were better philosophers than literary critics and better 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 ...
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| Title | Robert Burns |
| Author | David Daiches |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 334 pages |
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