Reading Sir Walter:


Marmion 

Second Canto I-V (The Convent)


Read by Edward Hocknell

I have chosen this passage as it introduces the Abbess and Sister Clare on their voyage from Whitby to St Cuthbert's Isle. It illustrates Scott's essentially humorous attitude to character; and his dry wit, which is amusingly at odds with the rather ponderous content.

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