Robert BurnsPresents a definitive and complete appraisal of Robert Burns and his poetry. |
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... original poetry we first see clearly the tradition which , for convenience , one might call the Hutcheson tradition — the tradi- tion of a polite , non - Scottish culture in Scotland - interacting with the tradition represented by ...
... original poetry we first see clearly the tradition which , for convenience , one might call the Hutcheson tradition — the tradi- tion of a polite , non - Scottish culture in Scotland - interacting with the tradition represented by ...
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David Daiches. between the original fragment on which he may have based a song and his own additions and reworking ; thus to this day it is not al- ways possible to separate Burns's original work from traditional material . That Burns's ...
David Daiches. between the original fragment on which he may have based a song and his own additions and reworking ; thus to this day it is not al- ways possible to separate Burns's original work from traditional material . That Burns's ...
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... original of this 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 ...
... original of this 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 ...
Contents
Preface V | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
Copyright | |
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