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...hope of raising money to pay his passage to Jamaica, and the success of an enlarged edition of this volume was such that he was not only the lion of the winter in Edinburgh but found the proceeds of his work amply enough to buy a farm at Ellisland near Dumfries. The farm, however, did not pay and, taking a place in the excise, he removed his family to Dumfries, and there spent the shadowed years that remained to him. Although his relations with women were many and complicated, he had in the main a high and noble character...
...second is the period of Edinburgh, and Ellisland. In 1787 appeared his second book of poetry, and in 1790 his "Tam O' Shanter," that excellent combination of the terrible and the ludicrous. More pieces of this sort would have bridged the gap between him and the first class poet. The third period is the melancholy one of his last days, but in which he often sings at his best...
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