Full Description
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.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
Suggestions for further reading
1LYRICS
To the Pride of Teviotdale
The Prisoner's Complaint
The Resolve
The Violet
To a Lady
On the Massacre at Glencoe
Farewell to the Muse
From Waverley , 'False love, and hast thou played me this'
Guy Mannering ,
'Canny moment, lucky fit'
'Twist ye, twine ye! Even so'
The Heart of Midlothian,
'Proud Maisie is in the wood'
The Bride of Lammermoor,
'Look not thou on beauty's charming'
Ivanhoe, Rebecca's Hymn
The Pirate, The Song of the Reim-Kennar
Redgauntlet, Hope
Rokeby, Song
The Doom of Devergoil, Bonny Dundee
Carle, now the King's Come
2LANDSCAPE
The Dreary Change
From The Lay of the Last Minstrel
II.i 'If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright'
IV.i 'Sweet Teviot! On thy silver tide'
IV.ii 'unlike the tide of human time'
V.i 'Call it not vain; they do not err'
V.ii 'Not that, in sooth, o'er mortal urn'
V.xxx 'After due pause, they bade him tell'
VI.i 'Breathes there the man, with soul so dead'
VI.ii 'O Caledonia! stern and wild'
FromThe Lady of the Lake
IV.xxix ' The shades of eve come slowly down'
IV.xxx 'Beside its embers red and clear'
IV.xxxi 'He gave him of his Highland cheer'
VI.xxix 'Harp of the North, farewell! The hills grow dark'
3Narrative
Jock of Hazeldean
William and Helen
Marmion
Notes
Glossary
