> 'Tam' might be the best of the late Burns poems but even in the passage
> quoted there are stock similes and the breathtakingly bad 'rainbow's
lovely
> form'.
Then there are the epistles ...
It's a total fuck-up.
Other than Holy Willie, what the hell else counts?
Christopher, even RAMSAY did it better in in that piece about the
clapped-out Edinburgh madam -- what the hell was that poem called?
If Fergusson hadn't snuffed it his early twenties with syph, things in
Scottish Poetry would be Severely Different.
<sad sigh>
Robin
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