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... Fergusson's Scots poems is Edinburgh Scots with a dash of his parents' Aberdeenshire; he uses it with flexibility ... Fergusson are all qualities to be found to some degree in Ramsay and to a great degree in Burns. Fergusson drew his ...
... Fergusson's Scots poems is Edinburgh Scots with a dash of his parents' Aberdeenshire; he uses it with flexibility ... Fergusson are all qualities to be found to some degree in Ramsay and to a great degree in Burns. Fergusson drew his ...
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... Fergusson, Burns was to some degree taken up by the literati, and in studying his work and his literary career we have to take this fact into consideration. Fergusson, aloof from the literati yet as well educated as they, had no ...
... Fergusson, Burns was to some degree taken up by the literati, and in studying his work and his literary career we have to take this fact into consideration. Fergusson, aloof from the literati yet as well educated as they, had no ...
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... Fergusson as it is in "The Cotter's Saturday Night," but it is brought in naturally and without posturing; this is true, also, of Fergusson's handling of the patriotic note, a note which is sounded too stridently in Burns's poem. "The ...
... Fergusson as it is in "The Cotter's Saturday Night," but it is brought in naturally and without posturing; this is true, also, of Fergusson's handling of the patriotic note, a note which is sounded too stridently in Burns's poem. "The ...
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
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