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Page 98
... Mary Campbell was responsible for his reiterated determination not to own Jean conjugally, it is impossible to say. None of his surviving letters of this time makes any explicit reference to Mary, and neither Smith nor Richmond seems to ...
... Mary Campbell was responsible for his reiterated determination not to own Jean conjugally, it is impossible to say. None of his surviving letters of this time makes any explicit reference to Mary, and neither Smith nor Richmond seems to ...
Page 101
... Mary, And leave auld Scotia's shore? Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary Across the Atlantic's roar? And in the same song he protested (too much?) that he would keep his oath of faithfulness: I hae sworn by the Heavens to my Mary, I hae ...
... Mary, And leave auld Scotia's shore? Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary Across the Atlantic's roar? And in the same song he protested (too much?) that he would keep his oath of faithfulness: I hae sworn by the Heavens to my Mary, I hae ...
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... Mary! The domiciling of different kinds of imagery in a single emotional context is superbly done. The elemental formality of the opening two lines is set suddenly against a realistic picture of a stormy embarkation at Leith, with the ...
... Mary! The domiciling of different kinds of imagery in a single emotional context is superbly done. The elemental formality of the opening two lines is set suddenly against a realistic picture of a stormy embarkation at Leith, with 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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