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... poet does not conduce to the discriminating appreciation of his poetry , the fact remains that the cult developed spontaneously soon after Burns's death , and there must be something about his poetic achievement which accounts for it ...
... poet does not conduce to the discriminating appreciation of his poetry , the fact remains that the cult developed spontaneously soon after Burns's death , and there must be something about his poetic achievement which accounts for it ...
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... poet , the ironic observer of contemporary men and manners , the shrewd and humorous critic of religion and politics , of human character , of the Scotland of his day . This is the Burns who wrote ' Holy Willie's Prayer ' , ' The ...
... poet , the ironic observer of contemporary men and manners , the shrewd and humorous critic of religion and politics , of human character , of the Scotland of his day . This is the Burns who wrote ' Holy Willie's Prayer ' , ' The ...
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... poetic idiom than had been seen for some time : but he died at the age of twenty - four , leaving only a handful of promising Scots poems . Burns , whose ambitions as a poet in Scots were nourished by his reading of Ramsay and , to a ...
... poetic idiom than had been seen for some time : but he died at the age of twenty - four , leaving only a handful of promising Scots poems . Burns , whose ambitions as a poet in Scots were nourished by his reading of Ramsay and , to a ...
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