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... Ramsay (1684 or 1685-1758) ; with Ramsay we can see the new movement well under way. Ramsay came from his native Lanarkshire to Edinburgh about 1700 and with nothing but his enthusiasm and good humor to help him developed from an ...
... Ramsay (1684 or 1685-1758) ; with Ramsay we can see the new movement well under way. Ramsay came from his native Lanarkshire to Edinburgh about 1700 and with nothing but his enthusiasm and good humor to help him developed from an ...
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... Ramsay is to a considerable extent responsible. In Ramsay's original poetry we first see clearly the tradition which, for convenience, one might call the Hutcheson tradition — the tradition of a polite, non-Scottish culture in Scotland ...
... Ramsay is to a considerable extent responsible. In Ramsay's original poetry we first see clearly the tradition which, for convenience, one might call the Hutcheson tradition — the tradition of a polite, non-Scottish culture in Scotland ...
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... Ramsay. He wrote a fair number of English poems, too, but these, like the English poems of Ramsay and many poems of Burns, have little distinction. It was as a Scots poet that he attained real stature, and as a Scots poet that he ...
... Ramsay. He wrote a fair number of English poems, too, but these, like the English poems of Ramsay and many poems of Burns, have little distinction. It was as a Scots poet that he attained real stature, and as a Scots poet that he ...
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
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