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of revision ; De Vere a precisionist ; Stage plays and literature ; ' one of the people ' in birth, breeding and instincts ... he has been taken more to men's bosoms than any (other) if we except, perhaps, the bard of Avon, whose admirers belong ' Salmon's Geographical Grammar/ ' Derham's Physico-Theology/ ' The Spectator,' ' Pope's Homer,' ' Hervey's Meditations,' ' Lock's Essay on the Human Understanding,' and several plays of Shakespeare. " In his nineteenth summer he was sent to Kirkoswald Parish School to learn mensuration, surveying, etc. ... In these he made good progress. . . . The teacher had great local fame as a mathematician . . . (The poet's) sojourn at Kirkoswald had much improved him. He had considerably extended his reading ; he had exercised himself in debate, and laid a firm foundation for fluent and correct utterance . . . For three or four years after this ... at Lochlea . . . he still extended his reading and indulged occasionally in verse making." (William Gunnyon : Biographical sketch of Robert Burns.) Needless to say the particulars given in this sketch The are not the generous inferences of modern admirers, but are supplied by the properly authenticated utt

Author

Looney, J. Thomas

Published

2011

Language

EN