The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott - Couverture souple

Scott, Walter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0809533758 ISBN 13 : 9780809533756

Editeur : Wildside Press, 2021

Synopsis

The aim in this edition of SCOTT'S POEMS has been to give a correct text, with such portions of Scott's notes as are likely to be useful or interesting to the general reader, and with fuller and better pictorial illustrations than are to be found in any former edition. The volume contains all the poems (not the plays, which are seldom, if ever, read nowadays, unless as mere literary curiosities), with the exception of a few bits of personal or occasional verse which Scott himself would never have printed, and which are not worth preserving. The original contributions to the Border Minstrelsy are included, except Scott's portion of Thomas the Rhymer (the Third Part only), which could not well be separated from the rest Of the Songs scattered through the novels and plays, the best of such as are comparatively independent of the context are given, together with all the poetical mottoes written by Scott himself for the heading of chapters.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Walter Scott Esq., writer to the signet, by A nne, daughter of Dr John Rutherford, professor of the practice of medicine, in the university of Edinburgh; and was born in that city, on the fifteenth of A ugust, 1771, being the third of a family consisting of six sons and one daughter. His paternal grandfather, Mr Robert Scott, fanner at Sandyknow, mthe vicinity of Smailholm Tower, in Roxburghshire was the son ot Mr Walter Scott, a younger son of Walter Scott ot Raeburn third son of Sir William Scott of Harden. The above-mentioned Walter lived at the time of the restoration, and embraced the tenets of quakerism but for this he endured no little persecution, both from Presbyterian and Episcopalian Walter, the second son of this gentleman, and father to the novelists grandfather, was so zealous a Jacobite that he made a vow never to shave his beard till the exiled house of Stuart should be restored, whence he acquired the name of Beardie. Dr John Rutherford, maternal grandfather to the Eubject of this memoir, and one of the pupils of Boerhaave, was the first professor of the practice of physic in the university of Edinburgh, to which office he was elected in 1727, and which he resigned in IT bb, in favour of the celebrated Dr John Gregory.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wildside Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0809533758
• ISBN 13: 9780809533756
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 672
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible