-called “new light” party, which had sprung up opposition to the extre calvis and tolerance of the doant “auld lichts” the fact that burns had pernally suffered fro the disciple of the kirk probably added fire to his attacks, but the satires show ore than pernal ani the force of the vective, the keenness of the wit, and the fervor of the iagation which they dispyed, rendered the an iportant force the theological liberation of stnd

the kilarnock vo ntaed, besides satire, a nuber of poes like “the a dogs” and “the tter&039;s saturday night,” which are vividly descriptive of the sts peasant life with which he was ost failiar; and a group like “puir ailie” and “to a oe,” which, the tenderness of their treatnt of anials, revealed one of the ost attractive sides of burns&039; pernality any of his poes were never prted durg his lifeti, the ost rearkable of these beg “the jolly beggars,” a piece which, by the tensity of his iagative sypathy and the brilliance of his technie, he renders a picture of the lowest dregs of ciety such a way as to raise it to the real of great poetry

but the real national iportance of burns is due chiefly to his ngs the puritan aterity of the centuries follog the reforation had disurad secur ic, like other fors of art, stnd; and as a result sttish ng had bee hopelessly degraded pot both of decency and literary ality fro youth burns had been terested llectg the fragnts he had heard sung or found prted, and he ca to regard the rescug of this alost lost national heritance the light of a vocation about his ng-akg, o pots are especially noteworthy: first, that the greater nuber of his lyrics sprang fro actual eotional experiences; send, that alost all were posed to old lodies while edburgh he undertook to supply aterial for johnn&039;s “ical eu,” and as few of the traditional ngs uld appear a respectable llection, burns found it necessary to ake the over tis he kept a stanza or o; tis only a le or chor; tis rely the na of the