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... letter ( which is undated ) was writ- ten just after Burns had received the news of Mary's death , and that " the madness of an intoxicated criminal under the hands of the executioner " reflected his feeling of remorse in this ...
... letter ( which is undated ) was writ- ten just after Burns had received the news of Mary's death , and that " the madness of an intoxicated criminal under the hands of the executioner " reflected his feeling of remorse in this ...
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... letter after letter that he would not eliminate some roughness or Scotticism from a song , that he had written a song for the tune he named , not the tune chosen by Thomson , that Thomson had missed some characteristic rhythmic quality ...
... letter after letter that he would not eliminate some roughness or Scotticism from a song , that he had written a song for the tune he named , not the tune chosen by Thomson , that Thomson had missed some characteristic rhythmic quality ...
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... letter was unknown when Professor Ferguson edited the letters for the Clarendon Press , and the text in that edition is necessarily taken from Scott Douglas's edition . The Douglas text is both fragmentary and willfully inaccurate , as ...
... letter was unknown when Professor Ferguson edited the letters for the Clarendon Press , and the text in that edition is necessarily taken from Scott Douglas's edition . The Douglas text is both fragmentary and willfully inaccurate , as ...
Contents
Preface V | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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