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" Burns' poems, and have read them twice ; and though they be written in a language that is new to me, and many of them on subjects much inferior to the author's ability, I think them on the whole a very extraordinary production. He is I believe the only... "
The Works of William Cowper: His Life and Letters - Page 249
by William Cowper, William Hayley - 1835
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Lives of the English Poets: Smith-Savage

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 456 pages
...be found the fifth or sixth in descent fromaking." DonQuixote, 1820,1.234. ' Burns,' wrote Cowper, ' is, I believe, the only poet these kingdoms have produced in the lower rank of life since Shakespeare (I should rather say since Prior) who need not be indebted for any part of his praise to...
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English Poems: The restoration and the eighteenth century (1660-1800)

Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...unintelligible to an English reader."—The Critical Review, May, 1787. "I have therefore read Burns's poems, and have read them twice; and though they be...kingdoms have produced in the lower rank of life, since Shakespeare (I should rather say, since Prior), who need not be indebted for any part of his praise...
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English Poems: The Restoration and the eighteenth century (1660-1800)

Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...unintelligible to an English reader." — The Critical Review, May, 1787. "I have therefore read Burns's poems, and have read them twice; and though they be...subjects much inferior to the author's ability, I th1nk them on the whole a very extraordinary production. He is, I believe, the only poet these kingdoms...
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1785-1824

Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 pages
...extremely. — BARBAULD, ANNA LJETITIA, 1787, Letter to Dr. Aikin, Works, vol. II, p. 151. Read Burns's descending, to his inferiors kind, 1 think them, on the whole, a very extraordinary production. He is, I believe, the only poet these...
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Critical Opinion in the Eighteenth Century: English Personal Letter

Thomas Lucian Cline - Criticism - 1923 - 300 pages
...modern judgment, has attained the greatest heights of his poetic fame. "I have therefore read Burns 's poems, and have read them twice; and though they be...only poet these kingdoms have produced in the lower rani, of life since Shakespeare, (I should rather say since Prior), who need not be indebted for any...
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Annual Burns Chronicle and Club Directory, Volumes 17-19

1908 - 570 pages
...Sophocles, or Homer ; yet if we except Burns, none such have been. SAMUEL TAYLOR COI.ERIDGE. Read Burns's poems, and have read them twice: and though they be...them on the whole a very extraordinary production. WILLIAM COWPER. Of Burns he was ever as enthusiastic an admirer as the wannest of his countrymen. Life...
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Robert Burns: The Critical Heritage

Donald A. Low - Literary Criticism - 1974 - 474 pages
...(See Introduction, p. 18.) (a) William Cowper to Samuel Rose, 24 July 1787 I have . . . read Burns's poems, and have read them twice; and though they be...kingdoms have produced in the lower rank of life since Shakespeare (I should rather say since Prior,) who need not be indebted for any part of his praise...
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The Living Age, Volume 10

1846 - 652 pages
...and nature; ihe religion that exalls and ennobles man.'' "1 have read Burns' poems,'' says Ci wper, " and have read them twice; and though they be written...these kingdoms have produced in the lower rank of life save Shakspeare, (I should rather say save Prior,) who need not be indebted for any part of his praise...
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