"The lone shieling" : or, Boatsong of Highlander exiles
"The lone shieling" : or, Boatsong of Highlander exiles / [Scott, Sir Walter, bart.] ; transcribed from Blackwood of September, 1829, by Walter G.F. Dewar ; with a musical setting composed by Alan Burr ; and rendered in Greek verse by Harold A. Perry and in Latin by Lord Francis Hervey ; and a...
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"The lone shieling" : or, Boatsong of Highlander exiles / [Scott, Sir Walter, bart.] ; transcribed from Blackwood of September, 1829, by Walter G.F. Dewar ; with a musical setting composed by Alan Burr ; and rendered in Greek verse by Harold A. Perry and in Latin by Lord Francis Hervey ; and a critical inquiry by the last named into the authorship of the poem. This publica
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Publish date: 1925
Publisher: John Murray
Pages no: 27
Edition language: English
[These notes were made in 1982:]. A smoothly argued but ultimately unconvincing claim that this early 19th-century song was written by Walter Scott. The argument rests on echoes of Johnson which Hervey purports to find in the song, on Scott's interest in Johnson, and on Scott's connection with Blac...
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