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Robert Burns
1759 - 1796
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Robert Burns - ‘Holy Willie’s Prayer’
The Bard needs no introduction to anyone who knows Scotland or its literature. ‘Holy Willie’s Prayer’ is Burns at his savagely satiric best. The poem demonstrates Burns’s opposition to the tyranny and bigotry that he observed in the Calvinist and extreme Presbyterian tendencies in Scottish religion.

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