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Page 55
... early ingrained Piety and Virtue never failed to point me out the line of Innocence . ” Robert , in fact , was growing more and more restless , increasingly dissatisfied with his lot and his prospects as the son of a struggling tenant ...
... early ingrained Piety and Virtue never failed to point me out the line of Innocence . ” Robert , in fact , was growing more and more restless , increasingly dissatisfied with his lot and his prospects as the son of a struggling tenant ...
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... early love poems have not been preserved . The extant early poems that follow Nelly's song are , however , mostly " occa- sional " pieces arising out of a variety of incidents and moods ; it did not take him long to extend his poetic ...
... early love poems have not been preserved . The extant early poems that follow Nelly's song are , however , mostly " occa- sional " pieces arising out of a variety of incidents and moods ; it did not take him long to extend his poetic ...
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... early work . Sometimes he writes purely in the English tradition , as in the very early song , " I Dream'd I Lay Where Flowers Were Springing " ; sometimes he writes in swinging ballad style , as in the " The Ronalds of the Bennals ...
... early work . Sometimes he writes purely in the English tradition , as in the very early song , " I Dream'd I Lay Where Flowers Were Springing " ; sometimes he writes in swinging ballad style , as in the " The Ronalds of the Bennals ...
Contents
Preface V | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
Copyright | |
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