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... literature , now a language in its own right though of course closely akin to English and in large measure intelli- gible to Englishmen . The great fifteenth - century Scottish poets , Robert Henryson and William Dunbar , had exercised ...
... literature , now a language in its own right though of course closely akin to English and in large measure intelli- gible to Englishmen . The great fifteenth - century Scottish poets , Robert Henryson and William Dunbar , had exercised ...
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... literature which it brought with it blighted Scottish drama and drove much folk literature underground . Further , once Scotland had officially become a Protestant country ( though there remained a large Roman Catholic area in the ...
... literature which it brought with it blighted Scottish drama and drove much folk literature underground . Further , once Scotland had officially become a Protestant country ( though there remained a large Roman Catholic area in the ...
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... literature ) , he did learn to appreciate economy , cogency and variety in the work of Pope and others , and , most important of all , he learned from older Scots literature to handle traditional Scottish literary forms and stanza ...
... literature ) , he did learn to appreciate economy , cogency and variety in the work of Pope and others , and , most important of all , he learned from older Scots literature to handle traditional Scottish literary forms and stanza ...
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