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One also would like to remind the public that Burns was not a sheer Bohemian, and to protest against the idea that unredeemed profligacy is a necessary condition of literary work. He was not a Scots Verlaine whose life was one course of foul living, abject pau- ROBERT BURNS 117 perism, and occasional crime, varied by fits of remorse and a fine play of genius. Burns worked hard both in youth and manhood, he celebrated in undying verse the foolishness of sin and the virtues of domestic life. Amid... a conflict of temptation he married Jean Ar- mour, and was on the whole a kind husband to her, and a good father to his children. The faults of his early youth were many, and he never was a model of flawless perfection, but he was true to the great tradition of Scotland in magnifying the home, and his own home he dearly loved. When one tries to estimate Burns's place, not in general literature, which is beyond the scope of this article, but in the Scots depart- ment, he has to guard against two ensnaring tendencies.
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