Robert BurnsPresents a definitive and complete appraisal of Robert Burns and his poetry. |
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Page 318
... Burns's songs paraphrasing their philosophy, one would indeed have a sad collection of moral or other platitudes; but a love song is not to be judged by the depth or originality of its ethics. This seems an obvious enough point, but it ...
... Burns's songs paraphrasing their philosophy, one would indeed have a sad collection of moral or other platitudes; but a love song is not to be judged by the depth or originality of its ethics. This seems an obvious enough point, but it ...
Page 329
... songs that he did not wish to use, so that he could give them to Johnson; but Thomson would generally prefer to keep them by him, though unused. These and other tricks made Thomson a much less faithful transmitter than Johnson of Burns's ...
... songs that he did not wish to use, so that he could give them to Johnson; but Thomson would generally prefer to keep them by him, though unused. These and other tricks made Thomson a much less faithful transmitter than Johnson of Burns's ...
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... Burns's songs. These first five of Burns's songs in volume two of the Museum — to ignore the opening ballad — will perhaps show something of the range of Burns as a song writer and the extremes of folk idiom and neoclassic expression ...
... Burns's songs. These first five of Burns's songs in volume two of the Museum — to ignore the opening ballad — will perhaps show something of the range of Burns as a song writer and the extremes of folk idiom and neoclassic expression ...
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
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