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Page 143
... verses carry the reader on with splendid ease ; we have only to set it beside some of the older Scottish verse epistles to see the nature of Burns's technical achievement . The “ Familiar Epis- tles " between William Hamilton of ...
... verses carry the reader on with splendid ease ; we have only to set it beside some of the older Scottish verse epistles to see the nature of Burns's technical achievement . The “ Familiar Epis- tles " between William Hamilton of ...
Page 144
... verses carry the reader on with splendid ease ; we have only to set it beside some of the older Scottish verse epistles to see the nature of Burns's technical achievement . The " Familiar Epis- tles " between William Hamilton of ...
... verses carry the reader on with splendid ease ; we have only to set it beside some of the older Scottish verse epistles to see the nature of Burns's technical achievement . The " Familiar Epis- tles " between William Hamilton of ...
Page 179
... verse is pretty tumty - tum stuff . Burns's in- spiration seems to be flagging , and we have no doubt of it when in the succeeding stanza he moves into a prayer for his Jean wholly out of keeping with the tone of the earlier part of the ...
... verse is pretty tumty - tum stuff . Burns's in- spiration seems to be flagging , and we have no doubt of it when in the succeeding stanza he moves into a prayer for his Jean wholly out of keeping with the tone of the earlier part of the ...
Contents
Preface V | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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