Scottish Poetry of the Eighteenth Century Volume 2 - Couverture souple

Eyre-Todd, Eyre-Todd

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1314423398 ISBN 13 : 9781314423396

Editeur : HardPress Ltd, 2013

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England. These invitations he of course did not accept, but his society was much sought after, and for some time in 1771 he was lionised in cultivated London society. He was the author also of a work on Christian Evidences, and of another volume of essays. Beattie sfame, however, at the present day depends almost entirely on his poem The Minstrel. The first part of the poem, which is also the best, was mostly written in 1768. It appeared in 1770, and the two cantos which comprise the entire work were published together in 1777. The design of The Minstrel, according to its authors preface, was to trace the progress of a poetical genius, born in a rude age, from the first dawning of fancy and reason, till that period at which he may be supposed capable of appearing in the world as a minstrel. A parallel has been drawn between Beattie s Minstrel and Byron s Childe Harold, both in purpose and style, and there can hardly be any doubt that Byron derived his idea from the elder poet. The Minstrel, in its difficult Spenserian stanza, remains without doubt its authors most individualistic work, and establishes him as the apostle of classical elegance among Scots poets of his day. Some of his odes, especially that on Retirement, possess also much beauty and charm, but they are hardly to be distinguished from similar compositions of Gray and Collins. The last years of the poet, sad to say, were clouded by the darkest of sorrows. His wife, Mary, a daughter of Dr. James Dun, head-master of Aberdeen grammar-school, whom he had married in 1767, became insane. This was an affliction heavy enough in itself, but Beattie was also haunted by apprehensions of a similar fate for his two sons. These, happily, were unrealized, but the elder of the two, a youth of such brilliant promise that he was appointed professor to assist his father at the early age of nineteen, was cut off on
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HardPress Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1314423398
• ISBN 13: 9781314423396
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 358
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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