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... rustic poverty that we find in that very unequal poem , " The Cotter's Saturday Night ' . Burns , who was much influenced by the sentimental tradition in late eighteenth - century English and Scottish literature , some- times postured ...
... rustic poverty that we find in that very unequal poem , " The Cotter's Saturday Night ' . Burns , who was much influenced by the sentimental tradition in late eighteenth - century English and Scottish literature , some- times postured ...
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... rustic or bacchanalian or humorous , that was both fully Scottish and fully contem- porary . This was Robert Fergusson , whose descriptive poems of Edinburgh life have a quality that most of Ramsay's verse lacks : Fergusson wove ...
... rustic or bacchanalian or humorous , that was both fully Scottish and fully contem- porary . This was Robert Fergusson , whose descriptive poems of Edinburgh life have a quality that most of Ramsay's verse lacks : Fergusson wove ...
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... rustic poet who wrote when Scotland was on the verge of the Industrial Revolution , after which the temptation to sentimentalize over an idealized country life was irresistible . Burns did not - and could not have been expected to help ...
... rustic poet who wrote when Scotland was on the verge of the Industrial Revolution , after which the temptation to sentimentalize over an idealized country life was irresistible . Burns did not - and could not have been expected to help ...
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