ect had rgely fallen into disuse as a medium fnified writing. shortly before burns' time, however, aln ramsay and robert fergusson had been the leading figures in a revival of the vernacur, and burns received from them a national tradition which he succeeded in carrying to its highest pitch, being thereby, to an almost unique degree, the poet of his people.
he first showed plete mastery of verse in the field of satire. in “the twa herds,” “holy willie's prayer,” “address to the unco guid,” “the holy fair,” and others, he maed sympathy with the protest of the so-called “new lig
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