18th Century
19th Century
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Scottish
Product details
- ISBN 9781857546989
- Weight: 389g
- Dimensions: 137 x 217mm
- Publication Date: 24 Apr 2003
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is the great poet of the Scottish people, their history and land, yet he wrote at a time when Scottish culture and landscapes were changing rapidly under English pressure. Introducing this selection, James Reed, an authority on ballads and the Border tradition, sets Scott in context as both a European Romantic and a Scottish folk poet. He also illuminates the political and cultural context of his work. This selection, which includes early love poems, songs from the novels, landscape poems from The Lay of the Last Minstrel and The Lady of the Lake, and the complete narrative poems 'William and Helen' and Marmion, reveals Scott as a poet who speaks for a people.
The selection contains notes on the text, suggestions for further reading and a glossary.
The selection contains notes on the text, suggestions for further reading and a glossary.
Sir Walter Scott was a prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet. James Reed is the author of "Walter Scott: Landscape and Locality," and "The Border Ballads."
