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... edition of The Tea-Table Miscellany; in other instances where I have quoted from eighteenth-century works I have cited the editions in the text. In quoting from Burns's Commonplace Book I have used the facsimile edition of Ewing and ...
... edition of The Tea-Table Miscellany; in other instances where I have quoted from eighteenth-century works I have cited the editions in the text. In quoting from Burns's Commonplace Book I have used the facsimile edition of Ewing and ...
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... Edition." The Caledonian Hunt was an exclusive and influential group, and their support meant a great deal. It was to "the noblemen and gentlemen of the Caledonian Hunt" that Burns dedicated his second edition, the Edinburgh edition of ...
... Edition." The Caledonian Hunt was an exclusive and influential group, and their support meant a great deal. It was to "the noblemen and gentlemen of the Caledonian Hunt" that Burns dedicated his second edition, the Edinburgh edition of ...
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... edition. The most important part of Burns's mission in Edinburgh had thus been successful. He had published his second edition there, under the very best auspices. The reviews were favorable (though the Edinburgh edition started the ...
... edition. The most important part of Burns's mission in Edinburgh had thus been successful. He had published his second edition there, under the very best auspices. The reviews were favorable (though the Edinburgh edition started 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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