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Page 11
... literary craftsman is wholly obscured in mists of sentimental oratory . Burns was , in fact , neither a pre- Romantic nor the ideal Rotarian : his work represented the last brilliant flare - up of a Scottish literary tradition that had ...
... literary craftsman is wholly obscured in mists of sentimental oratory . Burns was , in fact , neither a pre- Romantic nor the ideal Rotarian : his work represented the last brilliant flare - up of a Scottish literary tradition that had ...
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... literary movement on both its antiquarian and its creative sides . He was largely instrumental in bringing closer together social and literary life , and he is thus to some degree responsible for that host of clubs , societies ...
... literary movement on both its antiquarian and its creative sides . He was largely instrumental in bringing closer together social and literary life , and he is thus to some degree responsible for that host of clubs , societies ...
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... literary form he used . That it was a literary form and no haphazard rhyming by a rustic versifier is made clear by any reasonably careful reading of the poem . " The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie ' is a mock testament - a form ...
... literary form he used . That it was a literary form and no haphazard rhyming by a rustic versifier is made clear by any reasonably careful reading of the poem . " The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie ' is a mock testament - a form ...
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