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Sir Walter Scott
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Standard Name: Scott, Sir Walter
Birth Name: Walter Scott
Titled: Sir Walter Scott
Nickname: The Great Unknown
Used Form: author of Kenilworth
The remarkable career of Walter Scott
began with a period as a Romantic poet (the leading Romantic poet in terms of popularity) before he went on to achieve even greater popularity as a novelist, particularly for his historical fiction and Scottish national tales. His well-earned fame in both these genres of fiction has tended to create the impression that he originated them, whereas in fact women novelists had preceded him in each.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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| Literary responses | Eliza Haywood | The Monthly Review found the heroine of this book more interesting than Betsy Thoughtless (with better character-drawing but a continued deficiency in plot and sentiments. It conceded that the whole was doubtless much superior to... |
| Literary responses | Alison Cockburn | Burns
reflected the influence of Cockburn's I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling in one of his earliest compositions, I dream'd I lay where flowers were springing (first published in 1788). Fordonski, Krzysztof. “Robert Burns and Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski: A Translatological Investigation into the Mystery of ’I dream’d I lay’”. Scottish Literary Review, Vol. 5 , No. 1, 1 Mar. 2013– 2025, pp. 13-29. 16, 26 |
| Literary responses | Anna Jane Vardill | In September 1819 the European Magazine carried a poem in praise of AJV
, in which various Muses compete for possession of her. Axon, William E. A., and Ernest Hartley Coleridge. “Anna Jane Vardill Niven, the Authoress of ’Christobell,’ the Sequel to Coleridge’s ’Christabel.’ With a Bibliography. With an Additional Note on ’Christabel’”. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Vol. 2nd series 28 , 1970, pp. 57-88. 65-6 |
| Literary responses | Jane Porter | The notice in the Critical Review began by using this novel as a peg for a defence of good novels in general, especially, apparently, those dealing with national histories. The existence of many incompetent novelists... |
| Literary responses | Anna Gordon | William Tytler
was followed by many more in his interest in AG
's ballads. His son Alexander Fraser Tytler (Lord Woodhouselee)
, Scott
, Jamieson
, Joseph Ritson
, M. G. Monk Lewis
, Robert Anderson |
| Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | When Baillie re-read her own Witchcraft as a work in progress she wrote: I am inclined to think well of it. Renfrew witches upon a polite stage! Will such a thing ever be endorsed! qtd. in Witchcraft by Joanna Baillie. Finborough Theatre, 2008. |
| Literary responses | Emily Lawless | First reviews of With Essex in Ireland were mixed. The New York Tribune felt the work to be uneven, partly on account of Harvey's narration and partly for lack of an adequately engaging plot. New York Tribune. (28 December 1890): 14 |
| Literary responses | Maria Edgeworth | Walter Scott
's praise of ME
's admirable Irish portraits Scott, Sir Walter. Waverley. Editor Lamont, Claire, Oxford University Press, 1986. 341 Scott, Sir Walter. Waverley. Editor Lamont, Claire, Oxford University Press, 1986. 352-3 |
| Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Wordsworth
in 1837 revised his existing Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg to include a stanza describing FH
as that holy Spirit / Sweet as the spring, as ocean deep. Wordsworth, William. The Complete Poetical Works of Wordsworth. Editor George, Andrew J., Houghton Mifflin, 1932. 737 |
| Literary responses | Mary Russell Mitford | Charles the First was received well by the Athenæum, which indicated that the performance provided genuine satisfaction to a very attentive audience and gratification in its most agreeable shape to the gifted lady, Athenæum. J. Lection. 349 (1834): 508 |
| Literary responses | Harriette Wilson | Contemporary admirers of HW
on literary grounds included Walter Scott
, who praised her dialogue and intelligence, and thought her out and out qtd. in Thirkell, Angela. The Fortunes of Harriette. Hamish Hamilton, 1936. 218 |
| Literary responses | Emma Robinson | The Athenæum (again in the person of Henry Chorley
, again reviewing ER
as a male author), said she was still improving. Despite the difficulties posed by handling such well-known material, in this novel the... |
| Literary responses | Emily Lawless | The Literary World vividly likened experiencing this novel to reading the life of a past century by lightning flashes, and the half-blinded reader reads on and on and cannot stop or look away short of... |
| Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Appreciation of FH
was slowly growing. Following on the positive responses from Scott
and Byron
, in October 1820John Taylor Coleridge
in the influential Quarterly Review (published by John Murray
, her own publisher)... |
| Literary responses | Anna Seward | The Horatian odes received in London literary circles such warm approbation that the poet could not listen with undelighted ears. qtd. in Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 145 |
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