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Page 85
... theme itself is one of the oldest and most ubiquitous of all folk themes, that of death and resurrection used to symbolize the cycle of the seasons and the sprouting in the summer of seeds planted in the early spring. Burns adds to this ...
... theme itself is one of the oldest and most ubiquitous of all folk themes, that of death and resurrection used to symbolize the cycle of the seasons and the sprouting in the summer of seeds planted in the early spring. Burns adds to this ...
Page 199
... theme is deliberate and effective. Nae mair by "Babel's streams" we'll weep. To think upon our "Zion"; And hing our fiddles up to sleep, Like baby-clouts a-drying! Come, screw the pegs wi' tunefu' cheep, gut strings And o'er the thairms ...
... theme is deliberate and effective. Nae mair by "Babel's streams" we'll weep. To think upon our "Zion"; And hing our fiddles up to sleep, Like baby-clouts a-drying! Come, screw the pegs wi' tunefu' cheep, gut strings And o'er the thairms ...
Page 347
... theme had become by the last decade of the eighteenth century more effectively than the way in which Burns treats it in his songs; the theme had, in fact, become associated with local and national patriotism, with themes of love ...
... theme had become by the last decade of the eighteenth century more effectively than the way in which Burns treats it in his songs; the theme had, in fact, become associated with local and national patriotism, with themes of love ...
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
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