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... rhetorical exclamations at critical moments spoils the work as a whole . V Burns selected the Kilmarnock poems with care : he was prefer anxious to impress a genteel Edinburgh audience . In his preface he played up to contemporary ...
... rhetorical exclamations at critical moments spoils the work as a whole . V Burns selected the Kilmarnock poems with care : he was prefer anxious to impress a genteel Edinburgh audience . In his preface he played up to contemporary ...
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... rhetorical exhibitionist whose works are a store- house of pious platitudes to be quoted from platform and pulpit . The real Burns , Burns when he operated with his full strength and genius as a poet , was the heir of Henryson in his ...
... rhetorical exhibitionist whose works are a store- house of pious platitudes to be quoted from platform and pulpit . The real Burns , Burns when he operated with his full strength and genius as a poet , was the heir of Henryson in his ...
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