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... remarkable sonnet in Scots, and Hume, in his "Of the Day Estival," produced a brilliant and fascinating long poem descriptive of a summer's day from dawn to dusk. Neither poem affected the eighteenth- century Scottish tradition; nor did ...
... remarkable sonnet in Scots, and Hume, in his "Of the Day Estival," produced a brilliant and fascinating long poem descriptive of a summer's day from dawn to dusk. Neither poem affected the eighteenth- century Scottish tradition; nor did ...
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... remarkable among his various attainments, than the fluency, and precision, and originality of his language, when he spoke in company; more particularly as he aimed at purity in his turn of expression, and avoided more successfully than ...
... remarkable among his various attainments, than the fluency, and precision, and originality of his language, when he spoke in company; more particularly as he aimed at purity in his turn of expression, and avoided more successfully than ...
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... remarkable how effectively the Jacobite and patriotic notes can be handled when they have been, as here, so muted as to fall into place as an elegiac background for a love lyric. The skill with which Burns achieves this muting is remarkable ...
... remarkable how effectively the Jacobite and patriotic notes can be handled when they have been, as here, so muted as to fall into place as an elegiac background for a love lyric. The skill with which Burns achieves this muting is remarkable ...
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
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