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Preface (第2/4页)
, and during that winter he was the chief literary celebrity of the season. an enlarged edition of his poems ublished there in 1787, and the money derived from this enabled him to aid his brother in mossgiel, and to take and stock for himself the farm of ellisland in dumfriesshire. his fame as poet had reciled the armours to the e, and having nularly married jean, he brought her to ellisland, and once more tried farming for three years. tinued ill-success, however, led him, in 1791, to abandon ellisland, and he moved to dumfries, where he had obtained a position in the excise. but he was now thhly disced; his work was mere drudgery; his tendency to take his relaxation in debauchery increased the weakness of a stitution early undermined; and he died at dumfries in his thirty-eighth year. it is not necessary here to attempt to disentangle or explain away the numerous amours in which he was ehrough the greater part of his life. it is evident that burns was a man of extremely passioure and fond of viviality; and the misfortunes of his lot bined with his natural tendeo drive him to frequent excesses of self-indulgence. he was often remorseful, arove painfully, if itently, after better things. but the story of his life must be admitted to be in its externals a painful and somewhat sordid icle. that it tained, however, many moments of joy aation is proved by the poems here printed. burns' poetry falls into two main groups: english and scottish. his english poems are, for the most part, inferior spes of ventioeenth-tury verse. but in scottish poetry he achieved triumphs of a quite extraordinary kind. sihe time of the reformation and the union of the s of england and scotland, the scots dialect had largely fallen into disuse as a medium fnified writing. shortly before burns' time, however, allan ramsay and robert fergusson had been the leading figures in a revival of the
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