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Literary Minstrelsy, 1770–1830The Minstrel and Regency Romanticism: James Beattie and the Rivalry of Byron and Wordsworth

Literary Minstrelsy, 1770–1830: The Minstrel and Regency Romanticism: James Beattie and the... [When he first met Walter Scott in 1803, William Wordsworth saw him in the process of shaping the minstrel mode for the early nineteenth century. Scott had turned his attention from the largely editorial enterprise of Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802–3) to the original verse romance of The Lay of the Last Minstrel. During the visit, Scott ‘recited parts of the first four cantos … and when [The Lay] was published, in January 1805, it made him instantly famous’ (Johnston Hidden 801). Scott built on the success of The Lay in the years that followed his meeting with Wordsworth. When Wordsworth prepared a series of new works for publication in 1814 and 1815, he was well aware of the contrast between the hostile reception of his own Poems, in Two Volumes (1807) and the reading world’s enthusiasm for Scott and the newer poetic sensation, Lord Byron. As Peter Manning relates, ‘On May 5, 1814, three months after the appearance of The Corsair — whose brisk sales relative to The Excursion’s would only intensify this rivalry — Wordsworth wrote rather enviously to Rogers to announce The Excursion: “I shall be content if the publication pays its expenses, for Mr. Scott and your friend Lord B. flourishing at the rate they do, how can an honest Poet hope to thrive?” ’ (Reading Romantics 207, emphasis original).] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Literary Minstrelsy, 1770–1830The Minstrel and Regency Romanticism: James Beattie and the Rivalry of Byron and Wordsworth

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Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
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978-1-349-29923-2
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75 –103
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10.1057/9780230593985_4
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[When he first met Walter Scott in 1803, William Wordsworth saw him in the process of shaping the minstrel mode for the early nineteenth century. Scott had turned his attention from the largely editorial enterprise of Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802–3) to the original verse romance of The Lay of the Last Minstrel. During the visit, Scott ‘recited parts of the first four cantos … and when [The Lay] was published, in January 1805, it made him instantly famous’ (Johnston Hidden 801). Scott built on the success of The Lay in the years that followed his meeting with Wordsworth. When Wordsworth prepared a series of new works for publication in 1814 and 1815, he was well aware of the contrast between the hostile reception of his own Poems, in Two Volumes (1807) and the reading world’s enthusiasm for Scott and the newer poetic sensation, Lord Byron. As Peter Manning relates, ‘On May 5, 1814, three months after the appearance of The Corsair — whose brisk sales relative to The Excursion’s would only intensify this rivalry — Wordsworth wrote rather enviously to Rogers to announce The Excursion: “I shall be content if the publication pays its expenses, for Mr. Scott and your friend Lord B. flourishing at the rate they do, how can an honest Poet hope to thrive?” ’ (Reading Romantics 207, emphasis original).]

Published: Oct 21, 2015

Keywords: Seventh Edition; French Revolution; Emphasis Original; Historical Romance; Narrative Voice

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