Robert Burns |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 6
Page 11
... Fergusson wove together the spoken dialects of Edin- burgh ( where he was born and lived ) , Aberdeenshire ( where ... Fergusson ( he wrote in one of his letters of the excellent Ramsay and the still more excellent Fergusson ' ) imitated ...
... Fergusson wove together the spoken dialects of Edin- burgh ( where he was born and lived ) , Aberdeenshire ( where ... Fergusson ( he wrote in one of his letters of the excellent Ramsay and the still more excellent Fergusson ' ) imitated ...
Page 15
... Fergusson , while the language is the spoken language of Ayrshire enlarged by words from southern English and others from the older Scots literary tradition . Even more purely in the Scottish literary tradition is " The Death and 1 ...
... Fergusson , while the language is the spoken language of Ayrshire enlarged by words from southern English and others from the older Scots literary tradition . Even more purely in the Scottish literary tradition is " The Death and 1 ...
Page 25
... Fergusson's ' The Farmer's Ingle ' , ' but Burns is more pretentious than Fergusson and displays too clearly his object of showing off the Scottish peasantry for the approval and edification of men of feeling in Edinburgh . The poem ...
... Fergusson's ' The Farmer's Ingle ' , ' but Burns is more pretentious than Fergusson and displays too clearly his object of showing off the Scottish peasantry for the approval and edification of men of feeling in Edinburgh . The poem ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Alloway amang amusement antiquarian Armour assurance Ayrshire BIBLIOGRAPHY biographical material biography Bonamy Dobrée Britain's guid Burns cult Burns suppers Caesar Calvinist Commonplace Book Cotter's Saturday Night critical DAICHES PUBLISHED dance tunes DAVID DAICHES Dumfries E. W. F. Tomlin Edinburgh literati edition Edmund Blunden eighteenth-century English emotional exhibitionist express farm Fergusson folk-song GEORGE ORWELL God's heart HERBERT READ Holy Fair Holy Willie's Prayer humorous James Jean JOHN Jolly Beggars Kathleen Raine Kilmarnock volume lady lasses letters Louse Luath replies medieval Scottish poets Middle Scots Mountain Daisy older Scots older Scottish poetry omitted passion poem that Burns poetic popular predestined Ramsay Ramsay's real Burns ROBERT BURNS rustic satiric poems Scotland Scottish art Scottish culture Scottish Dialect Scottish folk tradition Scottish literary tradition Scottish literature Scottish song sentimental sentimentalists sixteenth-century Scottish poet social song writer technical thee thou tion tone traditional Scottish turning Twa Dogs vols words wrote in English