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... achievement and perpe- tuates a quite unreal and preposterously sentimentalized pic- ture of the man and the poet . The modern Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid has complained that the Burns cult has denied his poetry to laud his amours ...
... achievement and perpe- tuates a quite unreal and preposterously sentimentalized pic- ture of the man and the poet . The modern Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid has complained that the Burns cult has denied his poetry to laud his amours ...
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David Daiches. and admiration before the almost god - like achievement of Shakespeare's genius . Shakespeare is not the great popular hero in England that Burns is in Scotland . Indeed , I can think of no country that has made a poet ...
David Daiches. and admiration before the almost god - like achievement of Shakespeare's genius . Shakespeare is not the great popular hero in England that Burns is in Scotland . Indeed , I can think of no country that has made a poet ...
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... achievement was split in this way , and indeed how his character both as man and as poet was torn in different directions , we must have some appre- ciation of the nature of the Scottish literary tradition and of Burns's relation to it ...
... achievement was split in this way , and indeed how his character both as man and as poet was torn in different directions , we must have some appre- ciation of the nature of the Scottish literary tradition and of Burns's relation to it ...
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