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... chorus, in which all the characters join, goes to the tune of an English drinking song, "Jolly Mortals, Fill Your Glasses." There are, in fact, two eighteenth-century English tunes with this title, but it seems clear from the way in ...
... chorus, in which all the characters join, goes to the tune of an English drinking song, "Jolly Mortals, Fill Your Glasses." There are, in fact, two eighteenth-century English tunes with this title, but it seems clear from the way in ...
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... chorus) have a fine swagger to them; they are in a rhetorical tradition equally removed from the folk tradition of "I'm O'er Young to Marry Yet" and the album tradition of "The Birks of Aberfeldy." The song goes to a rather unusual ...
... chorus) have a fine swagger to them; they are in a rhetorical tradition equally removed from the folk tradition of "I'm O'er Young to Marry Yet" and the album tradition of "The Birks of Aberfeldy." The song goes to a rather unusual ...
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... chorus. The earlier version, which has the same chorus, is really quite a different poem, much more folklike in idiom and situation, and preserving a considerable amount of the folk poem on which it was based. Burns never claimed the ...
... chorus. The earlier version, which has the same chorus, is really quite a different poem, much more folklike in idiom and situation, and preserving a considerable amount of the folk poem on which it was based. Burns never claimed 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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