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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. MARMION Marmion was written at Ashestiel during the most tranquil and happy period of Scott's life. His pursuit of the law had begun to give him a good livelihood, and he had, in the intervals of his legal duties, abundant leisure to devote to literature. He determined therefore to meet the criticisms which had been made upon the roughness and incoherence of the Lay of the Last Minstrel by writing his next poem more slowly, polishing and elaborating as he went. His business connection with Ballantyne partially interfered with this resolution. The first four cantos of Marmion consumed, it is true, a year in composition, from November 1806 to November 1807, but they were written only in the intervals of morpressing business. At this point, finding himself in need of ready money, Scott sold the poem in advance for a thousand guineas, and completed it at a high rate of speed. It is interesting to note that the part thus hastily written contains his most notable work as a poet. He was probably helped rather than hindered by circumstances which forced upon him that hurried frankness of composition, in which he once declared the real charm of his verse to lie. In the Lay Scott had put his story into the mouth of an old Harper, and by occasionally dropping the song and recurring to the singer, had set the poem proper in a graceful framework. In Marmion he adopted a more formal means of/ introducing the various cantos, that of prefixing to/ them verse-letters, addressed to intimate friends, ) and embodying descriptions of his life at Ashestiel, / reminiscences of his friendship with the persons addressed, comments upon public affairs of the) hour, and meditations of a half-philosophic, half-; sentimental sort upon human life in general.j Objection has sometimes been made to thes.
| ISBN-13 | 9780217235174 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217235174 |
| Weight | 0.48 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.33 In |
| List Price | $10.01 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 142 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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