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... poetry of the folk tradition . Popular instinct also turns , however , to the kind of senti- mental glorifications of rustic poverty that we find in that very unequal poem , " The Cotter's Saturday Night ' . Burns , who was much ...
... poetry of the folk tradition . Popular instinct also turns , however , to the kind of senti- mental glorifications of rustic poverty that we find in that very unequal poem , " The Cotter's Saturday Night ' . Burns , who was much ...
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... poem . This attitudinizing runs right through " To a Mountain Daisy ' , a forced and sentimental poem in which he laments the fate of the crushed flower ( also turned down with the plough ) and compares it to that of a betrayed maiden .
... poem . This attitudinizing runs right through " To a Mountain Daisy ' , a forced and sentimental poem in which he laments the fate of the crushed flower ( also turned down with the plough ) and compares it to that of a betrayed maiden .
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... Burns did in ' A Red , Red Rose ' . Nor has the note of male protectiveness sounded so poignantly as in the poem that Burns wrote for Jessie Leward , the girl who helped to nurse him in his final illness : with a supreme effort of the ...
... Burns did in ' A Red , Red Rose ' . Nor has the note of male protectiveness sounded so poignantly as in the poem that Burns wrote for Jessie Leward , the girl who helped to nurse him in his final illness : with a supreme effort of the ...
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