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Page 148
... piece of gesturing for a genteel audience. We do not need the overt, sentimental moralizing of the second-to-last stanza to inform us that he has succumbed to his temptation to strike attitudes. The tone of the latter part of the poem ...
... piece of gesturing for a genteel audience. We do not need the overt, sentimental moralizing of the second-to-last stanza to inform us that he has succumbed to his temptation to strike attitudes. The tone of the latter part of the poem ...
Page 216
... piece that his genteel friends and admirers would have approved of. Burns probably got the first suggestion for the cantata from a piece in Ramsay's The Tea-Table Miscellany entitled "Merry Beggars," which introduced six beggars, each ...
... piece that his genteel friends and admirers would have approved of. Burns probably got the first suggestion for the cantata from a piece in Ramsay's The Tea-Table Miscellany entitled "Merry Beggars," which introduced six beggars, each ...
Page 307
... piece of the 1793 edition. Two slight and uninteresting pieces follow — "On Seeing a Wounded Hare" and "Address to the Shade of Thomson" — and the next new poem is that fine description of Captain Grose which we have discussed in the ...
... piece of the 1793 edition. Two slight and uninteresting pieces follow — "On Seeing a Wounded Hare" and "Address to the Shade of Thomson" — and the next new poem is that fine description of Captain Grose which we have discussed in 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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