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... genteel tradition we have associated with the name of Hutcheson was also developing apace. Francis Hutcheson was a professor at the University of Glasgow when Ramsay was writing and editing in Edinburgh. It was Hutcheson who "rang the ...
... genteel tradition we have associated with the name of Hutcheson was also developing apace. Francis Hutcheson was a professor at the University of Glasgow when Ramsay was writing and editing in Edinburgh. It was Hutcheson who "rang the ...
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... genteel tradition of his age; and of course his own taste and genuis — and to see the relation of the three in Burns's poetic activity. We have seen how a combination of Scots literary influences and an exhibitionism directed at the ...
... genteel tradition of his age; and of course his own taste and genuis — and to see the relation of the three in Burns's poetic activity. We have seen how a combination of Scots literary influences and an exhibitionism directed at the ...
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... genteel friends were not, however, keen on the idea that he should seek a job in the Excise. A plowman poet was a plowman poet, after all, and his duty was to stay on a farm. Patrick Miller — who first introduced himself to Burns by ...
... genteel friends were not, however, keen on the idea that he should seek a job in the Excise. A plowman poet was a plowman poet, after all, and his duty was to stay on a farm. Patrick Miller — who first introduced himself to Burns by ...
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
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