In 1796, Scott's friend James Ballantyne founded a printing press in Kelso, in the Scottish Borders. Through Ballantyne, Scott was able to publish his first works and his poetry then began to bring him to public attention. In 1805, The Lay of the Last Minstrel captured wide public imagination, and his career as a writer was established in spectacular fashion. He published many other poems over the next ten years, including the popular The Lady of the Lake, printed in 1810 and set in the Trossachs. Portions of the German translation of this work were set to music by Franz Schubert. One of these songs, Ellens dritter Gesang, is popularly labelled as "Schubert's Ave Maria". ..............
the music! .. the melody!! .. a favorite since ever when i first heard it .. ..............
Marmion, published in 1808, produced some of his most memorable lines. Canto VI.
Stanza 17 reads:
Yet Clare's sharp questions must I shun Must separate Constance from the nun Oh! what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive! A Palmer too! No wonder why I felt rebuked beneath his eye
In 1809, Scott persuaded James Ballantyne and his brother to move to Edinburgh and to establish their printing press there. He became a partner in their business. As a political conservative and advocate of the Union with England, Scott helped to found the Tory Quarterly Review, a review journal to which he made several anonymous contributions.
In 1813 he was offered the position of Poet Laureate. He declined, and the position went to Robert Southey.
i'm sossossosooooooooooooooooo tired of it all .. lolol, though it was good to read of Randolph again, AND to hear the song (it's playing now!) .. it took me a long tttttime to find the image above because yesterday i didn't use the word spaghetti!!!
Yes, could have just googled, but the feeling was to dig it up here.
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