Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature eBook

Margaret Ball
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 264 pages of information about Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature.

Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature eBook

Margaret Ball
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 264 pages of information about Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature.

    The Poacher.

    “Oh say not, my love, with that mortified air.”

    The Vision of Triermain.

1810 Vol.  III, part 2.

  Account of the poems of Patrick Carey, a poet of the seventeenth
  century. (Afterwards prefixed to the volume of Carey’s poems published
  in 1820.  See Lockhart, Vol.  II, pp. 245-8.)

1811 Vol.  IV, part 2.

  Biographical memoir of John Leyden, M.D. (In the Miscellaneous Prose
  Works.)

1812 Vol.  V, part 2.

  Extracts from a journal kept during a coasting voyage through the
  Scottish Islands. (Published in complete form in Lockhart, Vol.  II.)

1813 Vol.  VI.

  The Dance of Death.  Poems.

  Romance of Dunois, from the French.  Poems.

  Song for the anniversary meeting of the Pitt Club of Scotland.  Poems.

  Song on the lifting of the banner of the House of Buccleuch, at a
  great football match on Carterhaugh.  Poems.

1814 Vol.  VII.

  Historical Review of the Year. (See Lockhart, Vol.  III, p. 76.)

1815 Vol.  VIII.

  Historical Review of the Year. (See Lockhart, Vol.  III, p. 124.)

  The Search after Happiness, or the Quest of Sultaun Solimaun. 
  (Reprinted from the Sale-Room.  See Lockhart, Vol.  III, pp. 89-90.)

1816 Vol.  IX.

  The Noble Moringer.  Translated from the German.  Poems. (See also the
  introduction to The Betrothed.)

1817 Vol.  X.

  Farewell Address, spoken by Mr. Kemble to the Edinburgh Theatre, on
  the 29th March, 1817. (Reprinted from the Sale-Room. ) Poems.

1824 Vol.  XVII.

  To Mons. Alexandre.

(c) Contributions to other periodicals

Scott contributed frequently to The Edinburgh Weekly Journal, edited and published by James Ballantyne.  Some of the articles are reprinted in the Miscellaneous Prose Works.  Lockhart reprints in the Life Scott’s account of the coronation of George IV., and his Reply to General Gourgaud.

Scott also contributed to The Sale-Room, a weekly paper edited and published by John Ballantyne from January 4 to July 12, 1817 (28 numbers). (See Lockhart, Vol.  III, p. 89.)

To The Keepsake, an annual, Scott contributed in 1828 The Tapestried Chamber, My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror, and The Laird’s Jock, and in 1830 The House of Aspen.

In Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol.  I, appeared three articles entitled “Notices concerning the Scottish Gypsies,” for which Scott furnished a large part of the material. (Numbers for April, May, and September, 1817.) Lockhart says that Scott dictated to Thomas Pringle “a collection of anecdotes concerning Scottish gypsies, which attracted a good deal of notice.”  The first article

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