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Page 102
... Burns's own words. It is in the form of a note to "My Highland Lassie, O", said by R. H. Cromek when he first printed it in his Reliques of Robert Burns, 1808, to have been written by Burns in the interleaved copy of the Scottish ...
... Burns's own words. It is in the form of a note to "My Highland Lassie, O", said by R. H. Cromek when he first printed it in his Reliques of Robert Burns, 1808, to have been written by Burns in the interleaved copy of the Scottish ...
Page 108
... in one of its aspects, could be used to idealize the simple rustic. Burns knew all about that sentimentalism — Henry Mackenzie's Man of Feeling was his favorite novel from the first time he set eyes on it 108 ROBERT BURNS.
... in one of its aspects, could be used to idealize the simple rustic. Burns knew all about that sentimentalism — Henry Mackenzie's Man of Feeling was his favorite novel from the first time he set eyes on it 108 ROBERT BURNS.
Page 260
... in Edinburgh. Writing on October 25 to the Reverend John Skinner, "the old, venerable author of Tullochgorum," one of Burns's favorite songs, Burns revealed what was perhaps his chief interest at this time, and what 260 ROBERT BURNS.
... in Edinburgh. Writing on October 25 to the Reverend John Skinner, "the old, venerable author of Tullochgorum," one of Burns's favorite songs, Burns revealed what was perhaps his chief interest at this time, and what 260 ROBERT BURNS.
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
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