ISBN: 9781153870078

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...of Childe Harold; no such exquisite poetical drama as Manfred; no such daring flight of imagination as Cain; and no amalgam in a similar compass, of wit, sarcasm, poetry, passion, knowledge of human nature, inimitable ease of writing, interesting adventure, terse sentiment, concentred power of description, and melting pathos, as Don Juan. In sobriety, sweetness, health, and breadth, he is as far superior to Byron as he is in moral sentiment; but he is inferior in strength of muscle, in intensity, eloquence, and eagle-winged genius. It must be remembered, too, that Byron had performed all his marvellous achievements and was dead, at an age when Scott had only written the first ol his larger poems. In his relation to the Lakers, and particularly to Wordsworth and Coleridge, Scott had ample room at once for his generosity and for his wisdom. He knew that these men were much underrated in their own time, and that before them lay a great empire in the future,--an empire which, though it could not overturn, yet might divide dominion with his own. Men of less kindly and manly nature might have felt prospective jealousy toward these poets who, though struggling, were secure of triumph, and whose influence might probably become profounder, if not so wide as his. Instead, however, of seeking to repress or damn them with faint praise, Scott is never weary, in his correspondence and conversation, of praising them; and in his Novels, now by quotations from their works in the text, and now by allusions in footnotes to their talents, he writes them up with all his might. He procured, we have seen, the poet-laureateship for Southey. He listened to Coleridge, ''that extraordinary man who, during a very hearty dinner, did not say a single word, and then uttered a... George Gilfillan, Books, History, Life Of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet Books>History, General Books LLC<

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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 142 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=8mm, Gew.=218gr, [GR: 21600 - TB/Belletristik/Biographien, Erinner… Plus…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 142 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=8mm, Gew.=218gr, [GR: 21600 - TB/Belletristik/Biographien, Erinnerungen], [SW: - History - General History], Kartoniert/Broschiert<

2010, ISBN: 115387007X, Lieferbar binnen 4-6 Wochen

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 142 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=8mm, Gew.=218gr, [GR: 21600 - TB/Belletristik/Biographien, Erinner… Plus…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 142 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=8mm, Gew.=218gr, [GR: 21600 - TB/Belletristik/Biographien, Erinnerungen], [SW: - History - General History], Kartoniert/Broschiert<

2010, ISBN: 115387007X, Lieferbar binnen 4-6 Wochen

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 142 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=8mm, Gew.=218gr, [GR: 21600 - TB/Belletristik/Biographien, Erinner… Plus…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 142 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=8mm, Gew.=218gr, [GR: 21600 - TB/Belletristik/Biographien, Erinnerungen], [SW: - History - General History], Kartoniert/Broschiert<