The Romantic Scottish Ballads
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Excerpt from The Romantic Scottish Ballads: And the Lady Wardlaw Heresy If Wolf´s famous theory regarding the authorship of the Iliad were the true one, that great classic Integer whom we call Homer, and whose familiar bust in stucco has so long presided over our bookshelves, would have to descend from his eminent position, and be broken up into fragments, each of the ´disjecta membra poetæ´ representing an individual rhapsodist. If Mr. Robert Chambers has, in his recent publication on the Romantic Scottish Ballads, propounded the correct doctrine as to the authorship of the pieces he particularly refers to, an effect of an opposite kind will follow. A number of Scottish Ballads, hitherto supposed to be assigned to one Scottish lady who amused herself with verse-making, ´and cutting paper with her scissors,´ in the early part of last century. Let such a claim be established, and she deserves a bust in marble. In Chamber´s Edinburgh Journal for 1843, I recollect seeing a brief notice of the ballad of Sir Patrick Spence, and an attempt made to prove it to be the composition of the authoress of Hardyknute, one of the minor literary impositions of last century. What was only in the bud in 1843 has, in the course of sixteen years, become full-blown, and now Mr. Chambers states - ´I have arrived at the conclusion that the high-class romantic ballads of Scotland are not ancient compositions - are not older than the early part of the eighteenth century - and are mainly, if not wholly, the production of one mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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