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... neoclassic writers of France . Though it included the Scottish writers who followed English models and wrote in an Eng- lish neoclassic idiom , it ignored the entire body of Scottish writings from the Scottish Chaucerians to Allan ...
... neoclassic writers of France . Though it included the Scottish writers who followed English models and wrote in an Eng- lish neoclassic idiom , it ignored the entire body of Scottish writings from the Scottish Chaucerians to Allan ...
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... neoclassic English while employing throughout the old Scots stanza form of " The Cherry and the Slae " ; " Man Was Made to Mourn " is based on an old folk song his mother used to sing , yet it employs a rhetorical neoclassic idiom ; and ...
... neoclassic English while employing throughout the old Scots stanza form of " The Cherry and the Slae " ; " Man Was Made to Mourn " is based on an old folk song his mother used to sing , yet it employs a rhetorical neoclassic idiom ; and ...
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... neoclassic poetic diction ; and the " Epitaph " which follows is of no great interest or poetic distinction , though there is a certain ingenuity in the rhymes . The " Lament of Mary Queen of Scots on the Approach of Spring " was ( as ...
... neoclassic poetic diction ; and the " Epitaph " which follows is of no great interest or poetic distinction , though there is a certain ingenuity in the rhymes . The " Lament of Mary Queen of Scots on the Approach of Spring " was ( as ...
Contents
Preface V | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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