Word: halloween
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Dates: during 1896-1896
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...profitable-instead of dwelling, as so many critics have done, upon what Burns did not accomplish in poetry-to note and cherish what he did accomplish. This divides itself easily into two classes-first such remarkable geure pictures of the life of the people as "The Jolly Beggars," "Halloween," and a dozen other vigorous examples; and second those keen, sweet songs in which the passions of patriotism, of drink, above all of love, are expressed with a perfectness and a concentration unequalled in modern literature...