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... folk tradition which alone was able to survive the seventeenth- century blight . That the folk tradition survived this blight was due largely to its adaptability , not to its being in any way exempt from the general suspicion cast by ...
... folk tradition which alone was able to survive the seventeenth- century blight . That the folk tradition survived this blight was due largely to its adaptability , not to its being in any way exempt from the general suspicion cast by ...
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... folk literature , which Watson's Collection so clearly revealed , was manifesting itself in other ways , too . Well - born ladies of leisure began to write poems in Scots in the style of the older folk lyrics or of the ballads . Lady ...
... folk literature , which Watson's Collection so clearly revealed , was manifesting itself in other ways , too . Well - born ladies of leisure began to write poems in Scots in the style of the older folk lyrics or of the ballads . Lady ...
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... folk elements and neoclassic elegance , demonstrating how easily Burns could move from one to the other - from a line like ' O were yon hills and valley mine ' , which has the real folk ring , to ' By secret truth and honour's band ...
... folk elements and neoclassic elegance , demonstrating how easily Burns could move from one to the other - from a line like ' O were yon hills and valley mine ' , which has the real folk ring , to ' By secret truth and honour's band ...
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