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Page 105
... farewell gesture is clear from the whole pattern of his behavior with respect to the book . Burns seems early to have formed the habit of thinking of himself • as a Poet with a capital " P. ” 105 Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME.
... farewell gesture is clear from the whole pattern of his behavior with respect to the book . Burns seems early to have formed the habit of thinking of himself • as a Poet with a capital " P. ” 105 Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME.
Page 153
... conversation lags , and " tacksman [ farmer ] and cotter eke to bed maun steer . " Fergusson ends the poem with a superb stanza of simple benediction : soil Peace to the husbandman and a ' his tribe 153 THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME.
... conversation lags , and " tacksman [ farmer ] and cotter eke to bed maun steer . " Fergusson ends the poem with a superb stanza of simple benediction : soil Peace to the husbandman and a ' his tribe 153 THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME.
Page 244
... volume . It was substantially the Kilmarnock volume with new poems added , and some minor changes in the spelling of Scots forms in the old poems . These new poems were for the most part , however , poems which he had already written ...
... volume . It was substantially the Kilmarnock volume with new poems added , and some minor changes in the spelling of Scots forms in the old poems . These new poems were for the most part , however , poems which he had already written ...
Contents
Preface V | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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