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Page 124
... Fair " ( which is perhaps earlier than any of the preceding , though its date is uncertain ) , is the first of those in the Kilmarnock volume which show the full stature of Burns as a poet working in the Scots literary tradition . We ...
... Fair " ( which is perhaps earlier than any of the preceding , though its date is uncertain ) , is the first of those in the Kilmarnock volume which show the full stature of Burns as a poet working in the Scots literary tradition . We ...
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... Fair , To spend an hour in daffin : Gin ye'll go there , yon runkl'd pair , We will get famous laughin At them this day . " The stanza form , which is a simplified version of a very old Scot- tish form , used in " Christ's Kirk on the ...
... Fair , To spend an hour in daffin : Gin ye'll go there , yon runkl'd pair , We will get famous laughin At them this day . " The stanza form , which is a simplified version of a very old Scot- tish form , used in " Christ's Kirk on the ...
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... Fair , in which the verse gathers speed and the reader is given a vivid sense of crowds and bustle . Burns takes every opportunity to point out the crazy mixture of the religious and the secular which is so characteristic of the scene ...
... Fair , in which the verse gathers speed and the reader is given a vivid sense of crowds and bustle . Burns takes every opportunity to point out the crazy mixture of the religious and the secular which is so characteristic of the scene ...
Contents
Preface V | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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