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I THE SCOTTISH LITERARY TRADITION > NO LYRIC poet has been as much talked about and as often misunderstood as Robert Burns . In the conventional academic literary histories he is regarded as a ' pre - Romantic ' , the representative of ...
I THE SCOTTISH LITERARY TRADITION > NO LYRIC poet has been as much talked about and as often misunderstood as Robert Burns . In the conventional academic literary histories he is regarded as a ' pre - Romantic ' , the representative of ...
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About Ramsay's work as bookseller , antiquarian , poet , patron of the arts , and general literary busybody , an entire book could be written ; in an introductory chapter of this kind it must suffice to note that his characteristic ...
About Ramsay's work as bookseller , antiquarian , poet , patron of the arts , and general literary busybody , an entire book could be written ; in an introductory chapter of this kind it must suffice to note that his characteristic ...
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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 with a long tradition in ...
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 with a long tradition in ...
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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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