Some Characteristics of Scots Literature
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In this matter Burns was the son of his century. But though he had no superstitions of his own, his peasant birth enabled him to enter into those of his neighbours, and he turned them inside out with many a sly Avitty touch, insinuating a natural explanation in the guise of an innocent simile or a naive alternative : — Ye — like a rash-buss — stood in sicht Wi' wavin' sough.
Awa' ye swattered — like a drake — On whistlin' wings.
The deil — or else an outler quey — Gat up and gae a croon.
Kirk A...lloway was drawing nigh, Whaur ghaists — and owlets — nightly cry.
Scott's handling of the supernatural is full of interest. His intellect, like Burns's, belonged to the eighteenth century ; but, unlike Burns, he would fain have believed. Hence his direct treatment of the supernatural in prose is half-hearted, and fails. But when he had learned from the Lyrical Ballads — as Professors Dixon and Grierson have pointed out^ — to treat the supernatural subjectively, to show it through the medium of a temperament, he achieved in Wandering Willie's Tale a success as perfect in its way as The Ancient Mariner.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
In this matter Burns was the son of his century. But though he had no superstitions of his own, his peasant birth enabled him to enter into those of his neighbours, and he turned them inside out with many a sly Avitty touch, insinuating a natural explanation in the guise of an innocent simile or a naive alternative : — Ye — like a rash-buss — stood in sicht Wi' wavin' sough.
Awa' ye swattered — like a drake — On whistlin' wings.
The deil — or else an outler quey — Gat up and gae a croon.
Kirk A...lloway was drawing nigh, Whaur ghaists — and owlets — nightly cry.
Scott's handling of the supernatural is full of interest. His intellect, like Burns's, belonged to the eighteenth century ; but, unlike Burns, he would fain have believed. Hence his direct treatment of the supernatural in prose is half-hearted, and fails. But when he had learned from the Lyrical Ballads — as Professors Dixon and Grierson have pointed out^ — to treat the supernatural subjectively, to show it through the medium of a temperament, he achieved in Wandering Willie's Tale a success as perfect in its way as The Ancient Mariner.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by J C James Cruickshanks Smith to read onlineMoreLess
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