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Page 329
... Museum. ) Thomson despised Johnson and his Scottish Musical Museum and sometimes retained songs by Burns which he did not intend to use, simply to prevent them from falling into Johnson's hands. Burns, who does not seem to have realized ...
... Museum. ) Thomson despised Johnson and his Scottish Musical Museum and sometimes retained songs by Burns which he did not intend to use, simply to prevent them from falling into Johnson's hands. Burns, who does not seem to have realized ...
Page 332
... Museum and the Select Scottish Airs and to say something of their quality. The first of Burns's songs in volume two of the Museum is "When Guilford Good Our Pilot Stood," which appeared in the Edinburgh Edition with the note "Tune ...
... Museum and the Select Scottish Airs and to say something of their quality. The first of Burns's songs in volume two of the Museum is "When Guilford Good Our Pilot Stood," which appeared in the Edinburgh Edition with the note "Tune ...
Page 340
... Museum and later (with the wrong tune) in Thomson's fifth volume. Burns did not at once claim the complete song as his (it was not ascribed to him in the Museum ) : "the first half stanza of the song is old, the rest is mine," he wrote ...
... Museum and later (with the wrong tune) in Thomson's fifth volume. Burns did not at once claim the complete song as his (it was not ascribed to him in the Museum ) : "the first half stanza of the song is old, the rest is mine," he wrote ...
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
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