Titlebook: Walter Scott; Modern Judgements D. D. Devlin Textbook 1968Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 1968 Coleridge.English literature.epi

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(1961),I. is a long time now since anyone coupled the name of Scott, as Hazlitt and Ruskin did, with the name of Shakespeare. Yet to Pushkin and Mickiewicz this coupling would have been natural, and Pushkin in fact explicitly made the comparison. Writing in 1830, he declared:

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(1961),, written four years after the appearance of ., challenges comparison with that masterpiece and comes badly out of the comparison.

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(1961),, written four years after the appearance of ., challenges comparison with that masterpiece and comes badly out of the comparison.

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,Scott’s Heroes (1963),e alone, and without spying at Abbotsford to catch him at it, that the Author of . was the same as the Author of .. Pursuing very closely the question of authorship, Adolphus produced a highly critical account of his material. In Letter VII of his treatise he compiled the following summary of the hero of the Waverley Novels:

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,Scott’s Achievement as a Novelist (1951),vels are a very different matter. They might with justice be called ‘a(chǎn)nti-romantic’ fiction. They attempt to show that heroic action, as the typical romantic writer would like to think of it, is, in the last analysis, neither heroic nor useful, and that man’s destiny, at least in the modern world, i

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,Providence, Fate, and the Historical Imagination in Scott’s , (1955),onsequence in the experience of a race and a nation. Within this fundamental point of view, as Grierson has pointed out, Scott united the novel which was concerned primarily with the state of society, usually contemporary, and the romance which made use of the uncommon and the marvelous.. The result