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Page 100
... remarkable volume - one of the most remarkable first volumes ever published by a British poet- and left no doubt of Burns's poetic stature . A fair conception of the kind of poet Burns had by this time become , as well as some idea of ...
... remarkable volume - one of the most remarkable first volumes ever published by a British poet- and left no doubt of Burns's poetic stature . A fair conception of the kind of poet Burns had by this time become , as well as some idea of ...
Page 278
... remarkable skill . By keeping the tone and imagery of a characteristic sentimental piece in the genteel tradition , and at the same time describing in meticulous detail and with outrageous obscenity the love making of Dame Nature and ...
... remarkable skill . By keeping the tone and imagery of a characteristic sentimental piece in the genteel tradition , and at the same time describing in meticulous detail and with outrageous obscenity the love making of Dame Nature and ...
Page 309
... remarkable how effectively the Jacobite and patriotic notes can be handled when they have been , as here , so muted as to fall into place as an elegiac background for a love lyric . The skill with which Burns achieves this muting is ...
... remarkable how effectively the Jacobite and patriotic notes can be handled when they have been , as here , so muted as to fall into place as an elegiac background for a love lyric . The skill with which Burns achieves this muting is ...
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