Robert BurnsPresents a definitive and complete appraisal of Robert Burns and his poetry. |
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... literature. The most significant things in Watson's collection are the popular poems and folk songs, earlier and ... literature by the Reformation. These represented a definite turning back to the roots of Scottish culture, a turning ...
... literature. The most significant things in Watson's collection are the popular poems and folk songs, earlier and ... literature by the Reformation. These represented a definite turning back to the roots of Scottish culture, a turning ...
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... literature, conversation, and drink. He restored Scots literature to its natural place in the daily life of the people by associating it with the normal activities of the citizen. Ramsay's creative work is perhaps less important than ...
... literature, conversation, and drink. He restored Scots literature to its natural place in the daily life of the people by associating it with the normal activities of the citizen. Ramsay's creative work is perhaps less important than ...
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... literature to which Murdoch introduced young Robert tended on the whole to be formal, rhetorical, and sentimental, we must remember that it did include Shakespeare and Milton and also that Murdoch's manner of teaching consistently ...
... literature to which Murdoch introduced young Robert tended on the whole to be formal, rhetorical, and sentimental, we must remember that it did include Shakespeare and Milton and also that Murdoch's manner of teaching consistently ...
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
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