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... Ramsay's lifetime . In his preface to the four- teenth edition , Ramsay wrote : Although it be acknowledged that our Scots tunes have not lengthened variety of music , yet they have an agreeable gaiety and natural sweetness , that make ...
... Ramsay's lifetime . In his preface to the four- teenth edition , Ramsay wrote : Although it be acknowledged that our Scots tunes have not lengthened variety of music , yet they have an agreeable gaiety and natural sweetness , that make ...
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... Ramsay's purpose in writing his dramatic pastoral , The Gentle Shepherd : like the older Scottish poets , he was trying to domicile European traditions in a Scottish environment . The point that Ramsay is making in this introduction ...
... Ramsay's purpose in writing his dramatic pastoral , The Gentle Shepherd : like the older Scottish poets , he was trying to domicile European traditions in a Scottish environment . The point that Ramsay is making in this introduction ...
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... Ramsay is to a consider- able extent responsible . In Ramsay's original poetry we first see clearly the tradition which , for convenience , one might call the Hutcheson tradition — the tradi- tion of a polite , non - Scottish culture in ...
... Ramsay is to a consider- able extent responsible . In Ramsay's original poetry we first see clearly the tradition which , for convenience , one might call the Hutcheson tradition — the tradi- tion of a polite , non - Scottish culture in ...
Contents
Preface V | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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