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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HAUNTS AND HOMES OF BURNS. ] HE most bemarbled poet in Great Britain ia Burns. This is probably owing to the fact that he was a Scotchman, and that he gave his local and vanishing vernacular a poetic and public habitation and a name. No English poet has done that for his equally numerous and lowly dialects. Wordsworth, with all his treatment of homely and familiar subjects, ever handled them condescendingly and as a university scholar. Had he had the genius or the pluck to have done one thing more, written his ballads in the language of Cumberland and Westmoreland, and with the gusto with which the natives rattle away in their unknown tongue, he might have been as popular as Burns. But he shrank from the humble dialect service, and the heart of the people shrinks from him. This fact is equally true of all great English writers. Not one of them has ever transplanted the wild flowers of her native speech to his elegant pages. It is far otherwise with Scotchmen. Hogg, Wilson, Ramsay Scott, and Burns delight to render this service. Shakspeare has more of this local flavor about him than any other English poet. A book is written showing what Stratfordisms are in his dramas. No small part of his wonderful power and popularity is from this faithfulness. But he did not give himself openly to its service. It was a clandestine love. He chiefly talked, as he presumed kings and nobles did, in the grand style, Bo that his wood-notes wild are often lost in the high phrases of courtly speech. The Scotch love the racy and original language of their daily life, and, therefore, admire those who fill it with their genius and lift it up before all the world. Hence they preeminently love its two preeminent representatives, Scott and Burns. No monument in the world to a man of geniu...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217919678 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217919677 |
| Weight | 0.95 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.66 In |
| List Price | $23.09 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 292 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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