Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy

By: Lang, Andrew

IT was through his collecting and editing of The Border Minstrelsy that Sir Walter Scott glided from law into literature. The history of the conception and completion of his task, "a labour of love truly, if ever such there was," says Lockhart, is well known, but the tale must be briefly told if we are to understand the following essays in defence of Scott's literary morality.Late in 1799 Scott wrote to James Ballantyne, then a printer in Kelso, "I...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08JD64DKJ
• ISBN13: 9798684773334
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.0" x 10.0"