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.
Memoirs of Captain Carleton, ... including anecdotes of the war in Spain under the Earl of Peterborough, ... written by himself.  Edinburgh. (8vo, but 25 copies were printed on large paper.) [Edited by Scott anonymously.]
Scott was probably mistaken in considering this to be a genuine autobiography. (See Col.  Parnell’s argument in The English Historical Review, vi:97.) It has been attributed to Defoe, and Col.  Parnell attributes it to Swift, but the question of its authorship is still unsolved.  The book was first published in 1728, but Scott used the edition of 1743, which he was so inaccurate as to take for the original edition; and as at that date Defoe had long been dead and Swift had lost his mind, the possibility of attributing it to either of them naturally would not occur to him.  Scott wrote scarcely any notes, but his short introduction contains some interesting general reflections which are quoted by Lockhart.

  The Works of John Dryden, now first collected; illustrated with notes,
  historical, critical and explanatory, and a life of the author, by
  Walter Scott, Esq. 18 vols.  London.

      Second edition, 18 vols., Edinburgh, 1821.

      Another edition, revised and corrected by George Saintsbury,
      Edinburgh, 1882-1893.

  The Life of John Dryden (4to, only 50 copies printed).

      Memoirs of John Dryden, Paris, 1826.

Memoirs of Robert Carey, Earl of Monmouth, written by himself, and Fragmenta Regalia, being a history of Queen Elizabeth’s favourites, by Sir Robert Naunton.  With explanatory annotations.  Edinburgh. [Edited by Scott anonymously.]
Scott contributed no introductions, but his notes are copious, especially with regard to the history of the Border.  This is one of the books of which Scott is reported to have said to his publisher, Mr. Constable, “Did I not do Hodgson, Carey, Carleton, etc., to serve you; and did I ever ask or receive any remuneration?” (Ballantyne’s Refutation, etc., p. 76.)

  Queenhoo-Hall, a romance; and Ancient Times, a drama.  By the late
  Joseph Strutt, author of Rural Sports and Pastimes of the People of
  England. [Edited by Scott, who wrote a conclusion for Queenhoo-Hall. 
  This conclusion is given in an appendix to the introduction of
  Waverley.] Edinburgh.

1809
  The State Papers and Letters of Sir Ralph Sadler ... edited by Arthur
  Clifford ... to which is added a memoir of the life of Sir Ralph
  Sadler, with historical notes, by Walter Scott, Esq. 2 vols. 
  Edinburgh. (Also the same work in 3 vols., with same date.)

      The biography is included in all the editions of Scott’s Prose
      Works.

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