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... Scottish literary tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages . To understand how Burns's achievement was split in this way , and indeed how his character both as man and ... literary tradition and a literary language of their own : 8 BURNS.
... Scottish literary tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages . To understand how Burns's achievement was split in this way , and indeed how his character both as man and ... literary tradition and a literary language of their own : 8 BURNS.
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... history in Scottish - indeed , in European - poetry , and had been used by Ramsay and Fergusson , while the language is the spoken language of Ayrshire enlarged by words from southern English and others from the older Scots literary ...
... history in Scottish - indeed , in European - poetry , and had been used by Ramsay and Fergusson , while the language is the spoken language of Ayrshire enlarged by words from southern English and others from the older Scots literary ...
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... Scottish folk tradition but also some at least of the traditions of Scottish ' art ' poetry both as they came to him ... literary forms and stanza- patterns , particularly in descriptive and satirical verse , with assurance and cunning . From ...
... Scottish folk tradition but also some at least of the traditions of Scottish ' art ' poetry both as they came to him ... literary forms and stanza- patterns , particularly in descriptive and satirical verse , with assurance and cunning . From ...
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