Poetry · Character
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
First appearance: Sir 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…
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- Aftermath
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The emotional and psychological peak occurs when the boy’s childish joy and naive belief that he can see Ameri…
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- Thomas Campbell
- Burns and Scott in Edinburgh
- Reply to the Toast of Scottish Poets
- Lines on South of Scotland
- St. Andrew
- Sir Walter Scott
- Address to the Scottish Clans at Woodstock
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