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Writer claims 'Tam O' Shanter' lines came from another poem
ROBERT Burns was known to be a "magpie" poet who drew on verse by lesser-known Scots.See the full content of this document
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Did Burns Steal Ideas From an English Poet?
But experts now believe the source of a much-debated passage in one of his finest works - "Tam O' Shanter" - lies in a poem by an obscure 17th-century Englishman.
The link is at odds with the image of the Bard as a "heaven- taught ploughman" and sheds new lig...See the full content of this document
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