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... Edinburgh in order to support his mother and himself. From 1768, when he left St. Andrews, until 1774, he lived frugally but not miserably in Edinburgh, spending his days in the drudgery of copying legal manuscripts and his nights in ...
... Edinburgh in order to support his mother and himself. From 1768, when he left St. Andrews, until 1774, he lived frugally but not miserably in Edinburgh, spending his days in the drudgery of copying legal manuscripts and his nights in ...
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... Edinburgh society — and encouragement. Henry Erskine, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates and both a social and an intellectual leader in the Edinburgh of the period, similarly acknowledged Burns; with three such patrons no house or salon ...
... Edinburgh society — and encouragement. Henry Erskine, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates and both a social and an intellectual leader in the Edinburgh of the period, similarly acknowledged Burns; with three such patrons no house or salon ...
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... Edinburgh edition, with its imposing list of subscribers (printed against Burns's wish — he had to pay for those thirty-seven pages of printing — but on the insistence of some of his Edinburgh friends) and its equally imposing ...
... Edinburgh edition, with its imposing list of subscribers (printed against Burns's wish — he had to pay for those thirty-seven pages of printing — but on the insistence of some of his Edinburgh friends) and its equally imposing ...
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
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