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Page 115
... earlier part of the poem has changed into a brisk , sharp- toned , satirical style . The indictment flashes forth with wit and point , and Burns achieves in octosyllables something of what Pope achieved with the heroic couplet . The ...
... earlier part of the poem has changed into a brisk , sharp- toned , satirical style . The indictment flashes forth with wit and point , and Burns achieves in octosyllables something of what Pope achieved with the heroic couplet . The ...
Page 138
... earlier poems , we see at once the tradition in which Burns was working : salt copestone Lament in rhyme , lament in prose , Wi ' saut tears trickling down your nose ; Our Bardie's fate is at a close , Past a ' remead ; The last , sad ...
... earlier poems , we see at once the tradition in which Burns was working : salt copestone Lament in rhyme , lament in prose , Wi ' saut tears trickling down your nose ; Our Bardie's fate is at a close , Past a ' remead ; The last , sad ...
Page 199
... earlier minister of the Laigh Kirk ; Oliphant and Russell were successively " auld licht " ministers at another Kilmarnock church . But one hardly needs to know these details in order to appreciate the essential point being made- that ...
... earlier minister of the Laigh Kirk ; Oliphant and Russell were successively " auld licht " ministers at another Kilmarnock church . But one hardly needs to know these details in order to appreciate the essential point being made- that ...
Contents
Preface V | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
Copyright | |
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