Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy
by Andrew Lang
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About this eBook
- Author
- Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912
- Credits
- Transcribed from the 1910 Longmans, Green, and Co. edition by David Price
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- Scott, Walter, 1771-1832 -- Knowledge -- Literature
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 4088
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4088
- Release Date
- May 1, 2003
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.SIR WALTER SCOTT AND THE BORDER MINSTRELSY
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.SCOTT AND THE BALLADS
- 5.AULD MAITLAND — OLD MAITLAND A VERY ANTIENT SONG — II WHAT IS AULD MAITLAND ?
- 6.THE BALLAD OF OTTERBURNE
- 7.SCOTT’S TRADITIONAL COPY AND HOW HE EDITED IT
- 8.THE MYSTERY OF THE BALLAD OF JAMIE TELFER — I A RIDING SONG — II THE BALLAD IMPOSSIBLE — III COLONEL ELLIOT’S CHARGE AGAINST SIR WALTER SCOTT — IV WHO WAS THE FARMER IN THE DODHEAD IN 1580–1609? — V MORE IMPOSSIBILITIES IN THE BALLAD — VI IS THE SCOTT VERSION, WITH ELLIOTS AND SCOTTS TRANSPOSED, THE LATER VERSION? — VII SCOTT HAD A COPY OF THE BALLAD WHICH WAS NOT THE SHARPE COPY — Conclusion
- 9.KINMONT WILLIE
- 10.CONCLUSIONS — Imitations of Ballads — I—SIMMY O’ WHYTHAUGH — II—THE YOUNG RUTHVEN — III—THE DEAD MAN’S DANCE
- 11.FOOTNOTES
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