THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT. Walter Scott

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       Walter Scott

      THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT

      The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, The Lady of the Lake, Rokeby, The Field of Waterloo…

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      Table of Contents

       INTRODUCTION: Famous Authors on Scott

       SIR WALTER SCOTT AND LADY MORGAN by Victor Hugo

       MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS by Robert Louis Stevenson

       SCOTT AND HIS PUBLISHERS by Charles Dickens

       POETRY:

       Notable Poems

       MARMION

       THE LADY OF THE LAKE

       THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL

       ROKEBY

       THE VISION OF DON RODERICK

       THE BRIDAL OF TRIERMAIN

       THE FIELD OF WATERLOO

       THE LORD OF THE ISLES

       HAROLD THE DAUNTLESS

       Translations and Imitations from German Ballads

       THE WILD HUNTSMAN

       WILLIAM AND HELEN

       FREDERICK AND ALICE

       THE FIRE-KING

       THE NOBLE MORINGER

       THE BATTLE OF SEMPACH

       THE ERL-KING

       Contributions to “The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border”

       THE EVE OF ST. JOHN

       CADYOW CASTLE

       THOMAS THE RHYMER

       THE GRAY BROTHER

       GLENFINLAS; OR, LORD RONALD’S CORONACH

       Poems from Novels and Other Poems

       The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border

       ANDREW LANG’S VIEW OF SCOTT:

       LETTERS TO DEAD AUTHORS by Andrew Lang

       THE POEMS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT by Andrew Lang

       SIR WALTER SCOTT AND LADY MORGAN by Victor Hugo

      INTRODUCTION:

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      Famous Authors on Scott

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      SIR WALTER SCOTT AND LADY MORGAN by Victor Hugo

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      Sir Walter Scott is a Scotchman; his novels are enough to to convince us of this fact. His exclusive love of Scottish subjects proves his love for Scotland; revering the old customs of his country, he makes amends to himself, by faithfully portraying them, for not being able to observe them more religiously; and his pious admiration for the national character shines forth in the willingness with which he details its faults. An Irish lady ã Lady Morgan ã presents herself, as the natural rival of Sir Walter Scott, in persisting, like him, in writing only on national topics ; hut there is in her works much more love of celebrity than attachment to country, and much less national pride than personal vanity.

      Lady Morgan seems to paint Irishmen with pleasure ; but it is an Irish woman whom she, above everything and everywhere, paints with enthusiasm ; and that Irish woman is herself. Miss O’Hallogan in O’Donnell, and Lady Clancare in Florence Maccarthy, are neither more nor less than Lady Morgan, flattered by herself.

      We must say that, after Scott’s pictures, so full of life and warmth, the sketches of Lady Morgan seem but pale and cold. The historical romances of that lady are to be read; the romantic histories of the Scotchinan to be admired. The reason is simple enough : Lady Morgan has sufficient tact to observe what she sees, sufficient memory to retain what she observes, and sufficient art aptly to relate what she has retained; her