Note 505 — Chapter II · INDICATIONS OF A NEW ATTITUDE TOWARD NATURE IN THE POETRY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (continued 3)
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Burns, “Works,” I, 18. In one poem Burns declares that he prefers “wild mossy moors” to “Forth’s sunny shores,” but a characteristic reason,
For there by a lanely sequestered stream Resides a sweet lassie, my thought and my dream,
forbids the use of the passage as a proof of real enjoyment of the wild in Nature.