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David Daiches. form of Scottish patriotism. In a very short time Scottish patriotism, from being sternly Protestant ... patriotic imagination on the romantic implications of a lost cause (and the Jacobite cause became romantic only when ...
David Daiches. form of Scottish patriotism. In a very short time Scottish patriotism, from being sternly Protestant ... patriotic imagination on the romantic implications of a lost cause (and the Jacobite cause became romantic only when ...
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... patriotic emotion which follows is genuine enough, and the expression has a certain power in spite of its ... patriotic note, and in his final stanza seems to forget altogether the real theme of his poem: O Thou! who pour'd the patriotic ...
... patriotic emotion which follows is genuine enough, and the expression has a certain power in spite of its ... patriotic note, and in his final stanza seems to forget altogether the real theme of his poem: O Thou! who pour'd the patriotic ...
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... patriotism of the Jacobite love poems produces a far more individual note: It was a' for our rightfu' king We left ... patriotic notes can be handled when they have been, as here, so muted as to fall into place as an elegiac background ...
... patriotism of the Jacobite love poems produces a far more individual note: It was a' for our rightfu' king We left ... patriotic notes can be handled when they have been, as here, so muted as to fall into place as an elegiac background ...
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
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