Masterpieces of the Worlds Best Literature volume 1
Masterpieces of the Worlds Best Literature volume 1
Jeannette L Jeannette Leonard Gilder
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Many of his admirers will tell us that we have Burns, convivial, genuine, delightful, here: " Leeze me on drink ! it gies us mair Than either school or college; It kindles wit, it waukens lair. It pangs us fou o' knowledge. Be't whisky gill or penny wheep Or any stronger potion, It never fails, on drinking deep. To kittle up our notion By night or day. " There is a great deal of that sort of thing in Burns, and it is unsatisfactory, not because it is bacchanalian poetry, but because it has not ...that ac- cent of sincerity which bacchanalian poetry, to do it justice, very often has. There is something in it of bravado, something which makes us feel that we have not the man speaking to us with his real voice; something, therefore, poetically unsound. With still more confidence will his admirers tell us that we have the genuine Burns, the great poet, when his strain asserts the independence, equality, dignity, of men, as in the famous song, " For a' that and a' that": THE REAL BURNS "A prince can mak' a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might Guid faith he mauna fa' that !
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