Scottish Literature and the Scottish People, 1680-1830Chatto and Windus, 1961 - 339 Seiten |
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... kind of light verse or lampoon - because though at best it has the breath of life in it , it is sadly mingled with juvenility and moronic dirt . Before Burns , nothing had been done in modern Scots which would have compelled an educated ...
... kind of light verse or lampoon - because though at best it has the breath of life in it , it is sadly mingled with juvenility and moronic dirt . Before Burns , nothing had been done in modern Scots which would have compelled an educated ...
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... kind of sceptical , ironic downrightness is in fact what came to be the standard idiom of Scottish poetry . It is always present , suggesting a kind of norm of common- sense ( what Burns called " countra wit " ) , even in the most ...
... kind of sceptical , ironic downrightness is in fact what came to be the standard idiom of Scottish poetry . It is always present , suggesting a kind of norm of common- sense ( what Burns called " countra wit " ) , even in the most ...
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... kind of thing : Our country is reflected in the mirror of imagination , and we are all proud to see Auld Scotia's weather - beaten face in such shadowy portraiture . We are an arrogant set of people , no doubt , even the humblest of us ...
... kind of thing : Our country is reflected in the mirror of imagination , and we are all proud to see Auld Scotia's weather - beaten face in such shadowy portraiture . We are an arrogant set of people , no doubt , even the humblest of us ...
Inhalt
Foreword | 9 |
The Old Communal Culture | 19 |
The Age of Scott | 139 |
Urheberrecht | |
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