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'Holy Willie's Prayer'
One of Burns's most telling poems, and perhaps the greatest satire in European literature. The model for the poet's godly hypocrite was William Fisher. See Fisher, William. It was first printed anonymously in an 8 page pamphlet in 1789, along with 'quotations from the Presbyterian Eloquence'. Burns uses aa local character and a local incident — the affair of Gavin Hamilton and the Presbytary of Ayr — to produce a poem universal in its implications.
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