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David Daiches. V, sentimentality of Henry Mackenzie or the rhetorical theories of Hugh Blair. In fact, he laughed at Mackenzie, and in his poem, "The Sow of Feeling," implicitly ridiculed Mackenzie's famous sentimental novel, The Alan of ...
David Daiches. V, sentimentality of Henry Mackenzie or the rhetorical theories of Hugh Blair. In fact, he laughed at Mackenzie, and in his poem, "The Sow of Feeling," implicitly ridiculed Mackenzie's famous sentimental novel, The Alan of ...
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... sentimental moralizing of the second-to-last stanza to inform us that he has succumbed to his temptation to strike ... sentimentality. The mare is old and worn out, and the poet (who is, of course, the farmer in fact as well as in the ...
... sentimental moralizing of the second-to-last stanza to inform us that he has succumbed to his temptation to strike ... sentimentality. The mare is old and worn out, and the poet (who is, of course, the farmer in fact as well as in the ...
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... sentimental, but extremely practical Ayr lawyer, is an indication of his desire to keep an eye on a city audience; for, although "Orator Bob" was a convivial and democratic soul who admired Burns's Scots poems and spoke the Doric ...
... sentimental, but extremely practical Ayr lawyer, is an indication of his desire to keep an eye on a city audience; for, although "Orator Bob" was a convivial and democratic soul who admired Burns's Scots poems and spoke the Doric ...
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
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