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... poet was ready with his poetic ammunition to support Hamilton's cause and make his persecutors ridiculous throughout the countryside . Aiken was both a man of the world and a sentimentalist ; he was genuinely fond of the young farmer- poet ...
... poet was ready with his poetic ammunition to support Hamilton's cause and make his persecutors ridiculous throughout the countryside . Aiken was both a man of the world and a sentimentalist ; he was genuinely fond of the young farmer- poet ...
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... poet , of as- tonishing liveliness and verve , whose genius was nourished by the poetic traditions of his own people and whose work was sometimes enriched and more often corrupted by an intermittent effort to absorb the English poetic ...
... poet , of as- tonishing liveliness and verve , whose genius was nourished by the poetic traditions of his own people and whose work was sometimes enriched and more often corrupted by an intermittent effort to absorb the English poetic ...
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... poet . The Kilmarnock volume remained the essential core of subsequent editions in the poet's life- time , the chief evidence to contemporaries of Burns's poetic abilities , and his chief claim to fame as a published poet . But to say ...
... poet . The Kilmarnock volume remained the essential core of subsequent editions in the poet's life- time , the chief evidence to contemporaries of Burns's poetic abilities , and his chief claim to fame as a published poet . But to say ...
Contents
Preface V | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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