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As copyists redrew the poet in subsequent years , the likeness which emerges is almost unrecognizable as Burns . It is interesting to note how the likeness of Burns changed with successive editions . Scott was popular throughout the U.S. during the nineteenth century but particularly in the antebellum South , where his chivalric medievalism and heroic nobility appealed to the aristocratic elite . The paper in this edition is much superior to that of Philadelphia ; it may have been imported from Great Britain.At the time of publication there was a brisk trade in imported British books , and this may account for the apparently poor sales of the New Yorkedition . As this copying continued , the likeness to the original became less and less accurate . They were usually sold without covers ( though many are today found regathered into volumes , the legacy of generations of collectors ) . Mark Twain blamed Scott for a South where , as he wrote in Life on the Mississippi , " the genuine and wholesome civilization of the nineteenth century is curiously confused and commingled with the Walter Scott Middle-Age sham civilization . Gray is now best known for his poem " Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard , " with such much-quoted lines on village virtue as " From from the madding crowd 's ignoble strife , " or " Full many a rose is born to blush unseen .