Sir Walter Scott is the great poet of the Scottish people, yet he wrote at a time when Scottish culture and landscapes were changing rapidly under English pressure. Introducing this selection, James Reed sets Scott in context as both a European Romantic and a Scottish folk poet.
Sir Walter Scott is the great poet of the Scottish people, yet he wrote at a time when Scottish culture and landscapes were changing rapidly under Eng...
Rooted in the wild and beautiful country that lies between England and Scotland, the ballads that comprise this selection offer insights into a lawless region that owed allegiance to neither Edinburgh nor London, rather to kin and laird.
Rooted in the wild and beautiful country that lies between England and Scotland, the ballads that comprise this selection offer insights into a lawles...
