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... Watson up to the present day. Its verse form became a favorite of Scottish poets and is still associated with Scottish literature by the general reader. There were many other types of poetry represented in Watson's collection which were ...
... Watson up to the present day. Its verse form became a favorite of Scottish poets and is still associated with Scottish literature by the general reader. There were many other types of poetry represented in Watson's collection which were ...
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... Watson. Boyd wrote one remarkable sonnet in Scots, and Hume, in his "Of the Day Estival," produced a brilliant and ... Watson's collection, together with "flyting" poems in the old Scots tradition, and poems in the English tradition by ...
... Watson. Boyd wrote one remarkable sonnet in Scots, and Hume, in his "Of the Day Estival," produced a brilliant and ... Watson's collection, together with "flyting" poems in the old Scots tradition, and poems in the English tradition by ...
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... Watson had a start of eighteen years. Watson's tradition culminated in Burns; Hutcheson's, shorter lived, in David Hume; and the fusion of the two in the work of Sir Walter Scott explains many otherwise puzzling characteristics of his ...
... Watson had a start of eighteen years. Watson's tradition culminated in Burns; Hutcheson's, shorter lived, in David Hume; and the fusion of the two in the work of Sir Walter Scott explains many otherwise puzzling characteristics of his ...
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
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