Sir Walter Scott

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Sir Walter Scott
W H William Henry Hudson
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Shortly after this he visited Edinburgh, and Scott, highly flattered of course to find himself in such request, was elated as he had never been before, when the " Monk " invited him to dine with him at his hotel. He more than willingly put several pieces — GUnfinlas and The Eve of St fohn among the number — at Lewis's disposal, and awaited the results with some anxiety, which, as time went on, came to be mingled with not a little disgust Owing to various unforeseen delays, the volumes did not a...ppear till 1801, and then fell flat, partly, Scott thought, because of the disappointment which often follows " protracted expectation," partly because the passion for ballads and ballad-mongers was at the time on the wane, and partly again because of the exorbitant price charged for the work. Once more conditions seemed hostile to Scott's success. Owing to the failure of this new vehicle of publicity, he says, his efforts to present himself to the reading world as an original [writer LITERARY BEGINNINGS 69 proved as vain as those by which he had previously endeavoured to distinguish himself as a translator.^ In preparing his ballads for Lewis's "hobgoblin repast " however, Scott gained something from his editor's extreme severity in all matters connected with the mechanical part, or technique, of poetry.

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