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It seems probable that even at this early age Robert had a tendency to intermittent moodiness . ... Some of his earliest poems are records of these moods , done in the eighteenth - century rhetorical style he had learned from Masson's ...
It seems probable that even at this early age Robert had a tendency to intermittent moodiness . ... Some of his earliest poems are records of these moods , done in the eighteenth - century rhetorical style he had learned from Masson's ...
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His earliest poems , his earliest letters , and the opening entries in the Commonplace Book he began in the spring of ... My father was advanced in life when he married ; I was the eldest of seven children ; and he , worn out by early ...
His earliest poems , his earliest letters , and the opening entries in the Commonplace Book he began in the spring of ... My father was advanced in life when he married ; I was the eldest of seven children ; and he , worn out by early ...
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If we look through any chronological arrangement of Burns's poems , we are impressed by the abundance and variety , if not always by the quality , of this early work . Sometimes he writes purely in the English tradition , as in the very ...
If we look through any chronological arrangement of Burns's poems , we are impressed by the abundance and variety , if not always by the quality , of this early work . Sometimes he writes purely in the English tradition , as in the very ...
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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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