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... neoclassic writers of France. Though it included the Scottish writers who followed English models and wrote in an English neoclassic idiom, it ignored the entire body of Scottish writings from the Scottish Chaucerians to Allan Ramsay ...
... neoclassic writers of France. Though it included the Scottish writers who followed English models and wrote in an English neoclassic idiom, it ignored the entire body of Scottish writings from the Scottish Chaucerians to Allan Ramsay ...
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... neoclassic poetic diction; and the "Epitaph" which follows is of no great interest or poetic distinction, though there is a certain ingenuity in the rhymes. The "Lament of Mary Queen of Scots on the Approach of Spring" was ( as he wrote ...
... neoclassic poetic diction; and the "Epitaph" which follows is of no great interest or poetic distinction, though there is a certain ingenuity in the rhymes. The "Lament of Mary Queen of Scots on the Approach of Spring" was ( as he wrote ...
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... neoclassic diction echoing a conventional neoclassic emotion — such as several of those written to Clarinda. "Mary Morison," an early song, yet one of his finest, is a good example of this "middle" kind of song: the language is English ...
... neoclassic diction echoing a conventional neoclassic emotion — such as several of those written to Clarinda. "Mary Morison," an early song, yet one of his finest, is a good example of this "middle" kind of song: the language is English ...
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
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