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CHATTERTON LECTURE ON POETRY Robert Burns and British Poetry MURRAY G. H. PITTOCK University of Manchester THE ' MARVELLOUS BOY ' from ... This lecture deals with another poet dwelt on in the early phase of that poem : Robert Burns .
CHATTERTON LECTURE ON POETRY Robert Burns and British Poetry MURRAY G. H. PITTOCK University of Manchester THE ' MARVELLOUS BOY ' from ... This lecture deals with another poet dwelt on in the early phase of that poem : Robert Burns .
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Burns describes his poetry as ' some kind of counterpoise to the struggles of a world ' : an oppositional force . In this neglected phrase , Burns anticipates the argument of Seamus Heaney's The Redress of Poetry : that poetry is an ...
Burns describes his poetry as ' some kind of counterpoise to the struggles of a world ' : an oppositional force . In this neglected phrase , Burns anticipates the argument of Seamus Heaney's The Redress of Poetry : that poetry is an ...
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14 Knowing this , he claims , ' real poets know , as they have always known , that poetry cannot work to extra - poetic agendas'.15 So ' form ' remains contentious still , setting the poetic against the ' extra - poetic ' ...
14 Knowing this , he claims , ' real poets know , as they have always known , that poetry cannot work to extra - poetic agendas'.15 So ' form ' remains contentious still , setting the poetic against the ' extra - poetic ' ...
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