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Sir Walter Scott

Scotland's storied poet-novelist, invoked by McIntyre as a benchmark of verse so clean and sweet that lesser bards can only chalk his line and walk it.

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Also known as Scott, Sir Walter, Walter Scott

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Praised Campbell as a creator of 'Diamonds of the first water' compared to his own 'pebbles'.

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In McIntyre's poetic landscape, Scott stands as the ancestral standard against which local Canadian and Scottish versifiers are quietly measured. He never speaks in these pages; instead he haunts them as an ideal, the figure whose clean, sweet line McIntyre resolves to imitate even as people talk. His presence matters because he frames the collection's central anxiety: whether colonial poets can inherit the old world's music without merely echoing it.

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Thomas Campbell
Praised Campbell as a creator of 'Diamonds of the first water' compared to his own 'pebbles'.
Burns and Scott in Edinburgh
As a boy of tender years, he quotes lines of a poem and identifies the author, impressing Burns.
Reply to the Toast of Scottish Poets
Praised for his romancing rhymes of chivalry from ancient times.
Lines on South of Scotland
Cited as a notable literary figure from the region.
St. Andrew
Mentioned alongside Burns as a key part of Scottish heritage.
Sir Walter Scott
Praised as the second greatest in British literature after Shakespeare.
Address to the Scottish Clans at Woodstock
Mentioned as a Scottish hero whose name should never be forgotten.

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