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Marmion

Marmion

Scott, Walter

Paperback

Classic FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1545078602
ISBN13: 9781545078600
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 21 2017
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Marmion was published early in the year 1808; its first edition of two thousand, in the form, then usual, of a quarto volume, priced at a guinea and a half, was sold in a month. Then came the editions in octavo, of which there were twelve, between 1808 and 1825. Francis Jeffrey, in the Edinburgh Review, complained of anti- Scottish feeling, and otherwise criticised his friend's work in a way that alienated Scott, not from Jeffrey, but from the Review, and opened to John Murray a prospect of securing Scott for a contributor to another Review, the Quarterly, which he would found as a representative of other political opinions with which Scott would be more in accord. Marmion thus has a place in the story of the origin of the Quarterly Review. Of the great popularity of Marmion, Scott himself said at the time that it gave him such a heeze that he had almost lost his footing. The Letters introducing the several Books are, in all Scott's verse, perhaps the poems that most perfectly present to us his own personality. They form no part of Marmion, in fact there had been a plan for their publication as a distinct book. As they stand they interweave the poet with his poem, making Marmion, too, a Lay of the Last Minstrel, in the first days of its publication. George Ellis playfully observed to Scott that the personal appearance of the Minstrel who, though the Last, is by far the most charming of all minstrels, is by no means compensated by the idea of an author shorn of his picturesque beard, deprived of his harp, and writing letters to his intimate friends.

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