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Page 76
... fact did not make Burns's satiric poems on these matters any less effective or any less valuable . It may seem strange that a church which believed that salvation is granted to a tiny minority by a predestinate decree of God should be ...
... fact did not make Burns's satiric poems on these matters any less effective or any less valuable . It may seem strange that a church which believed that salvation is granted to a tiny minority by a predestinate decree of God should be ...
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... fact , any clearer example in Burns's poetry of the way in which , when he had his eye on the wrong audience , he was liable to go wrong . We need say little of " Halloween , " the poem that follows in the Kilmarnock edition . It is an ...
... fact , any clearer example in Burns's poetry of the way in which , when he had his eye on the wrong audience , he was liable to go wrong . We need say little of " Halloween , " the poem that follows in the Kilmarnock edition . It is an ...
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... fact , a heavy drinker for the period ; he did not have a good head for liquor and it took less to affect him than it often did others . The suggestion that in his last years he had become a drunkard is wholly false , a legend which ...
... fact , a heavy drinker for the period ; he did not have a good head for liquor and it took less to affect him than it often did others . The suggestion that in his last years he had become a drunkard is wholly false , a legend which ...
Contents
Preface V | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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