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Page 135
... Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie," one of the earliest of Burns's poems; Gilbert has described the occasion of its writing. Robert had bought a ewe and two lambs from a neighbor and kept the ewe in a field adjoining the house at ...
... Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie," one of the earliest of Burns's poems; Gilbert has described the occasion of its writing. Robert had bought a ewe and two lambs from a neighbor and kept the ewe in a field adjoining the house at ...
Page 136
... Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie" was written long before he had decided to present himself to the world as a printed poet, that it was an early poem thrown off under the inspiration of a real incident in order to amuse himself and ...
... Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie" was written long before he had decided to present himself to the world as a printed poet, that it was an early poem thrown off under the inspiration of a real incident in order to amuse himself and ...
Page 203
... Death because Dr. Hornbook, having read his Buchan's Domestic Medicine and other such works, has made them immune to disease is amusing and good natured enough, and done with a lively precision of imagery; but the poem does not sustain ...
... Death because Dr. Hornbook, having read his Buchan's Domestic Medicine and other such works, has made them immune to disease is amusing and good natured enough, and done with a lively precision of imagery; but the poem does not sustain ...
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
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