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... poet , read them that ballad . The Lay was so popular that Scott soon was busy with another poem in the same vein ... poets of James's reign are the last true poets of the Middle Ages -Henryson and Dunbar and Gavin Douglas . Marmion is ...
... poet , read them that ballad . The Lay was so popular that Scott soon was busy with another poem in the same vein ... poets of James's reign are the last true poets of the Middle Ages -Henryson and Dunbar and Gavin Douglas . Marmion is ...
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... poet into imitating his style , and among these appeared one who was not a small poet , a young man , half a Scotsman , George Gordon , Lord Byron , who chose an even more romantic setting for his poems , the Isles of Greece , and ...
... poet into imitating his style , and among these appeared one who was not a small poet , a young man , half a Scotsman , George Gordon , Lord Byron , who chose an even more romantic setting for his poems , the Isles of Greece , and ...
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... poet like the old poets who wrote about King Arthur and Tristram , with their charming suggestion of magic and mystery . He is not nearly so romantic as Coleridge in The Ancient Mariner . What Scott did , imperfectly in his poems and ...
... poet like the old poets who wrote about King Arthur and Tristram , with their charming suggestion of magic and mystery . He is not nearly so romantic as Coleridge in The Ancient Mariner . What Scott did , imperfectly in his poems and ...
Contents
Stories of Scotts Boyhood page II | 11 |
How the Ballads led to the Poems | 41 |
How the Poems led to the Novels | 55 |
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