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... technical brilliance and orginality in a Scottish literary tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages . To understand how Burns's achievement was split in this way , and indeed how his character both as man and as poet was torn in ...
... technical brilliance and orginality in a Scottish literary tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages . To understand how Burns's achievement was split in this way , and indeed how his character both as man and as poet was torn in ...
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... technical adroitness . Burns had by now available to him not only the Scottish folk tradition but also some at least of the traditions of Scottish ' art ' poetry both as they came to him through Fergusson and as he found them for ...
... technical adroitness . Burns had by now available to him not only the Scottish folk tradition but also some at least of the traditions of Scottish ' art ' poetry both as they came to him through Fergusson and as he found them for ...
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... technical accomplishment in the hand- ling of the stanza , but the introduction of hollow sentimen- talities and rhetorical exclamations at critical moments spoils the work as a whole . V Burns selected the Kilmarnock poems with care ...
... technical accomplishment in the hand- ling of the stanza , but the introduction of hollow sentimen- talities and rhetorical exclamations at critical moments spoils the work as a whole . V Burns selected the Kilmarnock poems with care ...
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