Walter Scott (1771–1832) was born #OnThisDay, 15 August, the son of Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet, and Anne Rutherford.
Scott is one of the most significant figures in Scottish, British, European and world literatures. In 2014, The Bottle Imp dedicated a special issue to celebrating Scott’s work.
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#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #19thcentury #Romanticism
Scott, Opera, & the Italian Journey
“What was it about Scott’s poems and novels that attracted composers all over Europe—and inspired more than seventy operas?”
📷 : “Lucia di Lammermoor”, Metropolitan Opera 2011
#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #Romanticism #19thcentury #opera
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GREAT SCOTT
Currently on BBC Sounds: Allan Little discusses Walter Scott’s life & legacy with Kirsty Archer-Thompson, Stuart Kelly, Sir Tom Devine, Andrew O'Hagan, Rosemary Hill, Sara Sheridan, Rory Stewart & Joyce McMillan
#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #Romanticism #19thcentury
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000y5vp
“No Romanticist or Victorianist can excuse an ignorance of Scott. Back then, everybody read him. He was the first global superstar of the novel.”
—Prof Adam Roberts on #WalterScott, #Romanticism, irony, #JaneAusten, & JRR #Tolkien
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian
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https://amechanicalart.blogspot.com/2016/06/some-thoughts-on-scott.html
THE GREAT UNCREDITED
“No other single literary figure—not Shakespeare or Dickens—has been more significant in the evolution of film narrative”
—Prof Tim Dolin on #WalterScott & #cinema
#Scottish #literature #film
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http://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-34-first-release/the-great-uncredited-sir-walter-scott-and-cinema/
Sir Walter Scott’s WAVERLEY
Currently on BBC Sounds: Rana Mitter on the writer & the books which “conjured up a portrait of the British as an effortlessly multicultural people… uniquely qualified to take on the world” – with Jenni Calder, Robert Crawford, & Andrew Lincoln
#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #Romanticism #19thcentury #CulturalStudies #Britain #Britishness
AS IT WAS TOLD TO ME: Three Short Stories by Sir Walter Scott
FREE ebook, introduced by Dr Daniel Cook
🪞 “My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror”: reckless romance & supernatural theatrics
🗡️ “The Two Drovers”: a slow-burn exposé of national conflict
🔥 “Wandering Willie’s Tale”: a trip to Hell, a demonic monkey, & an unreliable narrator
#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #Romanticism #19thcentury #ShortStories #supernatural
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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/as-it-was-told-to-me/
Why weep ye by the tide, ladie?
Why weep ye by the tide?
I’ll wed ye to my youngest son,
And ye sall be his bride…
“The first stanza of this ballad is ancient. The others were written for Mr Campbell’s ALBYN’S ANTHOLOGY”
“Jock of Hazeldean” (Child 293), by Sir Walter Scott – sung by Jean Redpath
#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #Romanticism #19thcentury #ballads #folksong
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbzUR8MFWTk
