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Address to the Deil
"Address to the Devil"
is a poem by
Scottish
poet
Robert Burns
. It was written in
Mossgiel
in
1785
and published in the
Kilmarnock volume
in
1786
. The poem was written as a humorous portrayal of the
Devil
and the pulpit oratory of the
Presbyterian Church
. It begins by quoting from
Milton's
Paradise Lost
as a contrast with the first two lines of the poem itself:
These lines are also a parody of a couplet in
Alexander Pope's
satire
The Dunciad
.
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