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... written with " The Epitaph of Habbie Simson ' and its imitations by Ramsay and Fergusson in mind . The significant fact is that Burns thus early in his career was working with traditional materials even when he was writing an ...
... written with " The Epitaph of Habbie Simson ' and its imitations by Ramsay and Fergusson in mind . The significant fact is that Burns thus early in his career was working with traditional materials even when he was writing an ...
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... written by Burns in response to a request of a group of Jacobites to write them a ' Birthday Ode for 31st Decem- ber , 1787 ' . Here he attempts to whip up Jacobite feeling in an ode modelled on Gray , and the effect is no more ...
... written by Burns in response to a request of a group of Jacobites to write them a ' Birthday Ode for 31st Decem- ber , 1787 ' . Here he attempts to whip up Jacobite feeling in an ode modelled on Gray , and the effect is no more ...
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... written in order to recapture folk emotion . Modern criticism , which does so well with John Donne or an ode of Keats , is singularly ill equipped for an appraisal of Burns's songs . In this venture our only guide can be Arnold's ...
... written in order to recapture folk emotion . Modern criticism , which does so well with John Donne or an ode of Keats , is singularly ill equipped for an appraisal of Burns's songs . In this venture our only guide can be Arnold's ...
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Allan Ramsay auld lang syne ballad Bard Beggars bonie Burns's songs century chorus collection Commonplace Book critical dear death drinking Edinburgh edition effect eighteenth-century Ellisland emotion English Epistle farm farmer feeling Fergusson frae friends Gavin Hamilton genteel Gilbert Green Grow Grow the Rashes heart Highland Holy Fair Hugh Blair interest Jacobite James Jean John Kilmarnock volume kind Kirk lasses letter lines literature lively Mary Mauchline melody mood moral Mossgiel moves Murdoch Muse Museum native ne'er neoclassic never night o'er owre patriotic poem poet poetic poetry poor pride printed Ramsay Ramsay's remarkable rhyme Robert Burns rustic satire Scotch Scotland Scots Scots Musical Museum Scottish literature sentimental Shanter sing social stanza sung Tarbolton thee theme Thomson thou thro tion turn Watson William Burnes words writing written wrote