Critisism On Robert Burns (1759-1796)
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Critisism On Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Robert Burns was a Scottish poet, whose works are known and loved wherever the English language is read. He was born in Alloway, Ayreshire, January 25, 1759. He was the eldest of seven children born to William Burness, a struggling tentant farmer, and his wif ....
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.... the apologies arising from his situation, seems to him fully entitled to command our feelings, and to obtain our applause. One bar, indeed, his birth and education have opposed to his fame, the language in which most of his poems are writtin.
Even is Scotland, the provincial dialect which Ramsay and he have used is now read with a difficulty which greatly damps the pleasure of the reader: in England it cannot be read at all, without such a constant reference to a glossary, as nearly to de ....
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