130 Years
Scott's Shorter Verse: Versatility in an Edinburgh and European Poet
On Thursday 14th June 2018 we had a talk by our Chairman, Professor Peter Garside
Peter Garside worked for more than thirty years at Cardiff University, where he became Director of the Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research, subsequently being appointed as Professor of Bibliography and Textual Studies at the University of Edinburgh, of which he is now a Professorial Fellow. He has edited scholarly editions of key works by a variety of Scottish authors, these including James Hogg’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner and Walter Scott’s Waverley, both for Edinburgh University Press (2001, 2007); he is also co-editor of English and British Fiction 1750-1820 (Oxford University Press, 2015).
Synopsis: The talk examines the deep and diverse European component in Scott’s occasional verse, over a period of half-a-century, ranging from his early effort at versification at Edinburgh’s High School in the early 1780s, in description of an eruption of Mount Etna, to the final attempts of a seriously unwell, though internationally celebrated author in Naples in 1832, in response to the request of a Russian Princess. Texts discussed are taken from those since made available in his edition (with Gillian Hughes) of The Shorter Poems (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) for the Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott’s Poetry.
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