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.

1796
  The Chase and William and Helen. (Translated from Buerger.)

1799
  Goetz of Berlichingen. (Translated from Goethe.)

  Apology for Tales of Terror.

Twelve copies were privately printed, to exhibit the work of the Ballantyne press at Kelso.  The title was occasioned by the delay in the publication of Matthew Lewis’s Tales of Terror, and the little book contains poems which Scott had contributed to that work. (The contents are named in the Catalogue of the Centenary Exhibition.)

1800
  The Eve of St. John, a Border ballad.

1802-3
  Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border; consisting of historical and
  romantic ballads, collected in the southern counties of Scotland; with
  a few of modern date founded upon local tradition.

3 vols.  Vols.  I and 2, Kelso, 1802; vol. 3, Edinburgh, 1803.  Second edition, 1803.  The book was republished frequently before 1830, when it was included in the collected edition of Scott’s poems.  It has also been reprinted independently since then several times.  The latest and most complete edition is that published in 1902, edited by T.F.  Henderson.  Other books in which part of Scott’s ballad material was used in such a way as to give his name a place on the title-page are named below: 

      Kinmont Willie:  a Border ballad, with an historical introduction,
      by Sir Walter Scott. (Carlisle Tracts No. 6) Carlisle, 1841.

      A Ballad Book by C.K.  Sharpe.  MDCCCXXIII.  Reprinted with notes and
      ballads from the unpublished manuscripts of C.K.  Sharpe and Sir
      Walter Scott ... edited by ...  D. Laing.  Edinburgh, 1880.

1804
  Sir Tristrem:  a metrical romance of the thirteenth century, by Thomas
  of Ercildoune, called the Rhymer.  Edited from the Auchinleck
  manuscript by Walter Scott.  Edinburgh.

Only 12 copies of Sir Tristrem were printed in the form in which Scott had intended to publish it, without the expurgation which his friends insisted upon. (Letters to R. Polwhele, etc., p. 18; Lockhart, I. 361).  The following book contains a part of the same material: 
A Penni worth of Witte, Florice and Blancheflour, and other pieces of ancient English poetry, selected from the Auchinleck manuscript. (With an account of the Auchinleck manuscript by Sir Walter Scott) Edinburgh, 1857.  Printed for the Abbotsford Club.

1805
  The Lay of the Last Minstrel.

1806
  Original Memoirs written during the great civil war; being the life of
  Sir H. Slingsby, and memoirs of Capt.  Hodgson.  With notes, etc
  Edinburgh. [Edited by Scott anonymously.]

  Ballads and Lyrical Pieces. [Poems which had already appeared in
  various collections.]

1808
  Marmion.

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