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David Daiches. tion. "Do not return it," he wrote, "for, by Heaven! if you do, our correspondence is at an end." To which Burns replied: I assure you, my dear Sir, that you truly hurt me with your pecuniary parcel. — It degrades me in my ...
David Daiches. tion. "Do not return it," he wrote, "for, by Heaven! if you do, our correspondence is at an end." To which Burns replied: I assure you, my dear Sir, that you truly hurt me with your pecuniary parcel. — It degrades me in my ...
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
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