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... Fergusson's Scots poems is Edin- burgh Scots with a dash of his parents ' Aberdeenshire ; he uses it with ... Fergusson are all qualities to be found to some degree in Ramsay and to a great degree in Burns . Fergusson drew his ...
... Fergusson's Scots poems is Edin- burgh Scots with a dash of his parents ' Aberdeenshire ; he uses it with ... Fergusson are all qualities to be found to some degree in Ramsay and to a great degree in Burns . Fergusson drew his ...
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... Fergusson , Burns was to some degree taken up by the literati , and in studying his work and his literary career we have to take this fact into con- sideration . Fergusson , aloof from the literati yet as well educated as they , had no ...
... Fergusson , Burns was to some degree taken up by the literati , and in studying his work and his literary career we have to take this fact into con- sideration . Fergusson , aloof from the literati yet as well educated as they , had no ...
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David Daiches. equality with either Ramsay or Fergusson , though he admitted imi- tating them . ( To move from Shenstone to Fergusson in one para- graph was indication of the confused role he was playing . ) He ended the Preface with a ...
David Daiches. equality with either Ramsay or Fergusson , though he admitted imi- tating them . ( To move from Shenstone to Fergusson in one para- graph was indication of the confused role he was playing . ) He ended the Preface with a ...
Contents
Preface V | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
Copyright | |
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