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... poetry , it has had a clear and obvious influence from the time of its reprinting by Watson up to the present day . Its verse form became a favourite of Scottish poets and is still associated with Scottish literature by the general ...
... poetry , it has had a clear and obvious influence from the time of its reprinting by Watson up to the present day . Its verse form became a favourite of Scottish poets and is still associated with Scottish literature by the general ...
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... poetry , including much of the work of the Scottish Chaucerians . This volume introduced his readers to the work of Scotland's first Golden Age , poetry produced at a time when the nation was independent and its culture , though ...
... poetry , including much of the work of the Scottish Chaucerians . This volume introduced his readers to the work of Scotland's first Golden Age , poetry produced at a time when the nation was independent and its culture , though ...
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... poetry and the criticism of poetry . 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 ...
... poetry and the criticism of poetry . 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 ...
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