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Arthur Masson, self-styled "teacher of languages at Edinburgh," was active in the 1760s. He published at Edinburgh a book on spelling and grammar, and A Collection of English Prose and Verse, for the Use of Schools. Both these works are available on ECCO. John Baird University of Toronto Quoting Richard Gorrie <rgorrie@UOGUELPH.CA>: Subject: Burns Query From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@earthlink.net> Date: November 16, 2009 2:57:59 PM EST >I came across a reference to the poetry Burns learned in school. John >Murdock, Burns' eighteen-year-old teacher in 1765, says the boys >committed to memory, "the hymns and other poems of Masson's > collection." I haven't been able to track this collection down. I'd >like to know what Burns had by heart.
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