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P.D. Garside and Gillian Hughes (eds), The Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott’s Poetry, Vol. Seven: The Shorter Poems

P.D. Garside and Gillian Hughes (eds), The Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott’s Poetry, Vol.... BOOK REVIEWS 231 P.D. Garside and Gillian Hughes (eds), The Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott’s Poetry, Vol. Seven: The Shorter Poems (General Editor: Alison Lumsden). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2020), 655pp, hardback. ISBN: 9781474424431. Like Robert Burns, Walter Scott is a writer around whom myths have proliferated and abide, even within the academic community. One particularly tenacious and pervasive Scott myth asserts that he stopped writing poetry with the publication of his first novel Waverley (1814). Among its many achievements, the Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott’s Poetry (EEWSP), and in particular its latest volume, The Shorter Poems, edited by Peter Garside and Gillian Hughes, establishes beyond doubt the fallacy of this oft-repeated claim. Unquestionably, Scott is recognised most readily today for his novels, followed by his long narrative poems; it is not usual to think of him as a writer of short and occasional verse. And yet, that is exactly what The Shorter Poems asks us to do, and demonstrates him to be. It shows not only that Scott began and ended his writing career in this way, but that he remained a writer of short and occasional verse throughout. Notably, it further highlights Scott’s under-explored yet considerable activity http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Burns Chronicle Edinburgh University Press

P.D. Garside and Gillian Hughes (eds), The Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott’s Poetry, Vol. Seven: The Shorter Poems

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Burns Chronicle , Volume 131 (2): 4 – Sep 1, 2022
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BOOK REVIEWS 231 P.D. Garside and Gillian Hughes (eds), The Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott’s Poetry, Vol. Seven: The Shorter Poems (General Editor: Alison Lumsden). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2020), 655pp, hardback. ISBN: 9781474424431. Like Robert Burns, Walter Scott is a writer around whom myths have proliferated and abide, even within the academic community. One particularly tenacious and pervasive Scott myth asserts that he stopped writing poetry with the publication of his first novel Waverley (1814). Among its many achievements, the Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott’s Poetry (EEWSP), and in particular its latest volume, The Shorter Poems, edited by Peter Garside and Gillian Hughes, establishes beyond doubt the fallacy of this oft-repeated claim. Unquestionably, Scott is recognised most readily today for his novels, followed by his long narrative poems; it is not usual to think of him as a writer of short and occasional verse. And yet, that is exactly what The Shorter Poems asks us to do, and demonstrates him to be. It shows not only that Scott began and ended his writing career in this way, but that he remained a writer of short and occasional verse throughout. Notably, it further highlights Scott’s under-explored yet considerable activity

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Published: Sep 1, 2022

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