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David Daiches. CHAPTER ONE THE SCOTTISH LITERARY TRADITION NO LYRIC poet has been as much talked about and as often misun- derstood as Robert Burns . In the conventional academic literary histories he is regarded as a " pre - Romantic ...
David Daiches. CHAPTER ONE THE SCOTTISH LITERARY TRADITION NO LYRIC poet has been as much talked about and as often misun- derstood as Robert Burns . In the conventional academic literary histories he is regarded as a " pre - Romantic ...
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... literary life , and he is thus to some degree responsible for that host of clubs , societies , literary associa- tions and similar organizations which made later eighteenth - century Edinburgh so distinguished for its unique combination ...
... literary life , and he is thus to some degree responsible for that host of clubs , societies , literary associa- tions and similar organizations which made later eighteenth - century Edinburgh so distinguished for its unique combination ...
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... literary principles with refer- ence to the passions , and this made for a certain kind of corruption in literary and critical practice which was to prove dangerous for Scottish literature . However ingenious or adequate as a ...
... literary principles with refer- ence to the passions , and this made for a certain kind of corruption in literary and critical practice which was to prove dangerous for Scottish literature . However ingenious or adequate as a ...
Contents
Preface V | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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