The climax of the poems on a religious theme such as "Address to the Deil", "The Kirk's Alarm", "The Ordination" and "The Holy Fair" was "Holy Willie's Prayer."
Written in 1785 and first printed anonymously in an eight-page pamphlet in 1789.
It is considered the greatest of all Burns' satirical poems, amongst the finest satires ever written, a withering attack on religious hypocrisy.
The climax of the poems on a religious theme such as "Address to the Deil", "The Kirk's Alarm", "The Ordination" and "The Holy Fair" was "Holy Willie's Prayer." Written in 1785 and first printed anonymously in an eight-page pamphlet in 1789. It is considered the greatest of all Burns' satirical poems, amongst the finest satires ever written, a withering attack on religious hypocrisy.
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