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The Edinburgh & Borders of Sir Walter Scott & Muriel Spark

Prof Gerry Carruthers in 2024, looking at how both Walter Scott & Muriel Spark engage with the ideas of the Borders & of Edinburgh – reflecting the wider complexity of Scotland, the world & the human condition

11/18

https://youtu.be/rZit4cibGds?si=5GccyWk4p7V4Xb6Q

#Scottish #literature #MurielSpark #20thCentury #WomenWriters #WalterScott #Borders #Edinburgh

"El talismán" es una novela de aventuras de Sir Walter Scott, un escritor clásico con creaciones muy interesantes.

En este libro, en concreto, se inspira la película "El reino de los cielos" de Ridley Scott. Poco que ver una con otro, pero una lectura muy recomendable, que cautiva hasta el final.

#literatu
#aventura
#WalterScott

https://www.elejandria.com/libro/el-talisman/walter-scott/732

BBC News: I got to say 'high' to Sir Walter Scott as he gets a monumental face-lift

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3r73r212rwo

#WalterScott #Glasgow #Scotland #Writing #Books

Rob Roy Rogers

#FastFoodABook
#HashTagGames
#WalterScott

“While WAVERLEY and KIDNAPPED remain literary touchstones, MIDWINTER feels like a misstep”

Greg Michaelson compares three novels of the ’45 Jacobite rebellion, by Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, & John Buchan respectively

4/8

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/12/midwinter-waverley-and-kidnapped-tangled-tales-of-the-45/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #JohnBuchan #Jacobite #HistoricalFiction #WalterScott #robertlouisStevenson

Springtime in Central Park, NYC May, 1970.
1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format)

Title: Untitled Central Park Photographs
Date: May 1970
Location: Central Park, New York City
Keywords: Springtime, Photography, Central Park Collection

Description:
This photograph series consists of 19 images taken by Toni Frissell in May 1970, capturing the beauty of springtime in Central Park. Unfortunately, there is no information provided about the individual photographs or people featured in the collection.

Biography of Toni Frissell (brief):
Toni Frissell was an American photographer known for her documentary-style portraits and landscape photography. She worked extensively in the US and abroad, capturing moments from everyday life to scenes of natural beauty.

Note: Due to the lack of specific information about individual photographs or people featured in the collection, further biographies and descriptions are not possible with the provided text.

#CentralPark #NewYorkCity #Photography #ToniFrissell #American #WALTERSCOTT #WalterScott #unitedstates #newyork #newyork(state) #photography

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2021741719/

Two young men resting on steps in front of a large stone tablet bearing the name "WALTER SCOTT". The scene appears to be set within Central Park, New York City during springtime as suggested by information provided. One man is lying down with his head tilted back against another who sits beside him, their heads close together and one arm wrapped around the other's waist in a relaxed manner indicating comfort or intimacy between them. Both individuals are dressed casually; one wears jeans and dark shoes while the seated person sports blue denim pants and black dress shoes. The photograph captures an intimate moment of rest on what seems to be part of park infrastructure, possibly near a monument dedicated to Walter Scott as indicated by lettering above their heads.

"Burning Bridges" is a song written by #WalterScott, and best known for its 1960 recording by #JackScott, which was a #3 hit in the US. This was the only hit song for composer Walter Scott, who was no relation to Jack Scott. The song was originally recorded by a relatively obscure country act called The Home Towners in 1957, but did not chart. Recorded by Jack Scott in 1960, "Burning Bridges" reached No. 3 on the #BillboardHot100, No. 5 on the #USRAndBChart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj-a0pbn38g

Unveiling Lady Scott
Walter Scott, French Influence & Transcultural Connections
Free online from 26 Nov–10 Dec 2025

Céline Sabiron sheds new light on Walter Scott’s work by investigating the French influence of his wife, Charlotte Charpentier & argues that she, as a knowledgeable art & literature enthusiast, greatly assisted him in his work as his secretary, amanuensis, & proofreader

@litstudies

https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/unveiling-lady-scott/312FE027B29B98DEA13AEFD0A39EA095

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #romanticism #WalterScott

Tales of a Grandmother: Female Literary Agency & its Echoes in Scotland’s Cultural Memory in the Age of Scott
25 Nov, Glasgow University & online. Free

Walter Scott’s shadow eclipsed most of his contemporary writers in Scotland’s cultural memory of the early 19th century. Leonie Jungen investigates CLAN-ALBIN by Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857), published one year after Scott’s WAVERLEY

@litstudies

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leonie-jungen-tales-of-a-grandmother-tickets-1700991755129

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #WalterScott #womenwriters

Breathes there a man with soul so dead
Who never to himself has said
What could be better than an Italian red
On a cold winter's evening

#walterscott #wine

La quarta ipotesi: doppi, deliri e predestinazioni https://www.carmillaonline.com/2025/09/23/la-quarta-ipotesi-doppi-deliri-e-predestinazioni/ #dottorJekylleilsignorHyde #letteraturafantastica #letteraturascozzese #letteraturainglese #SteveSylvester #doppelganger #WalterScott #Recensioni #JamesHogg #Scozia

#OnThisDay in 1943, #WalterScott, American R&B singer (The Whispers - "And the Beat Goes On"; "Rock Steady"), born in Fort Worth, Texas (d. 2025).
#HappyBirthday #RIP 🕊️🪦🎚️🕯️

Call it not vain:—they do not err,
Who say, that when the Poet dies,
Mute Nature mourns her worshipper,
And celebrates his obsequies…

—from Canto V, “The Lay of the Last Minstrel” by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) – died #OTD, 21 September

https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/canto05.html

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #WalterScott #19thcentury #romanticism

Sir Walter Scott
The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Canto V

I.
Call it not vain;—they do not err,
Who say, that when the Poet dies,
Mute Nature mourns her worshipper,
And celebrates his obsequies:
Who say, tall cliff and cavern lone
For the departed Bard make moan;
That mountains weep in crystal rill;
That flowers in tears of balm distill;
Through his lov'd groves that breezes sigh,
And oaks, in deeper groan, reply;
And rivers teach their rushing wave
To murmur dirges round his grave

II.
Not that, in sooth, o'er mortal urn
Those things inanimate can mourn;
But that the stream, the wood, the gale
Is vocal with the plaintive wail
Of those, who, else forgotten long,
Liv'd in the poet's faithful song,
And with the poet's parting breath,
Whose memory feels a second death.
The Maid's pale shade, who wails her lot,
That love, true love, should be forgot,
From rose and hawthorn shakes the tear
Upon the gentle Minstrel's bier:
The phantom Knight, his glory fled,
Mourns o'er the field he heap'd with dead;
Mounts the wild blast that sweeps amain,
And shrieks along the battle-plain.
The Chief, whose antique crownlet long
Still sparkled in the feudal song,
Now, from the mountain's misty throne,
Sees, in the thanedom once his own,
His ashes undistinguish'd lie,
His place, his power, his memory die:
His groans the lonely caverns fill,
His tears of rage impel the rill:
All mourn the Minstrel's harp unstrung,
Their name unknown, their praise unsung.

I can decorate for a party (#ClaudeReese)
I can ask a cop a question (#RandyEvans)
I can cash a check in peace (#YvonneSmallwood)
I can take out my wallet (#AmadouDiallo)
I can run (#WalterScott)
I can breathe (#EricGarner)
I can live (#FreddieGray)
I CAN BE ARRESTED WITHOUT THE FEAR OF BEING MURDERED (#GeorgeFloyd)

(6/6)

Dr Gerard McKeever – Scotch Novels

Recorded on 4 September 2025 at the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club.
Dr Gerard McKeever, lecturer in modern Scottish literature at the University of Edinburgh, speaks about Walter Scott’s relationship with Scotland, particularly through the lens of his so-called “Scotch Novels”.

@litstudies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twvrXYw1Sus

#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #19thcentury #romanticism

“…hearts in caskets
tossed onto a battle ground”

references the story of how James Douglas, taking Robert the Bruce’s embalmed heart to the Holy Land, was slain in battle in Spain. The story is given in (amongst other places) Walter Scott’s TALES OF A GRANDFATHER

2/4

#Scottish #literature #walterscott #history #medieval #middleages

In this new skirmish Douglas saw Sir William St. Clair of Roslyn fighting desperately, surrounded by many Moors, who were hewing at him with their sabres. "Yonder worthy knight will be slain," Douglas said, "unless he have instant help." With that he galloped to his rescue, but presently was himself also surrounded by many Moors. When he found the enemy press so thick round him, as to leave him no chance of escaping, the earl took from his neck the Bruce's heart, and speaking to it, as he would have done to the King had he been alive,—"Pass first in fight," he said, "as thou wert wont to do, and Douglas will follow thee, or die." He then threw the King's heart among the enemy, and rushing forward to the place where it fell, was there slain. His body was found lying above the silver case, as if it had been his last object to defend the Bruce's heart.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
-- Walter Scott

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WalterScott #Education

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota

Did Walter Scott Invent Scotland?
Dr Juliet Shields’ 2017 Gresham College Fulbright lecture

Walter Scott’s phenomenally popular novels & poems created an image of Scotland as a land of sublime scenery & heroic chivalry. Why is it Scott’s version, rather than any of the many other 19th-century literary representations of Scotland, that has endured in the popular imagination?

@litstudies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxBpDfV6SHE

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #WalterScott #CulturalStudies

He will outlast us, churning out his books,
advocate and historian, his prose
earning him Abbotsford with its borrowed gates,
its cheap mementos from the land he made…

—Iain Crichton Smith, “At the Scott Exhibition, Edinburgh Festival”
published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS (Carcanet, 2021)

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800170940/deer-on-the-high-hills/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #WalterScott #IainCrichtonSmith #writers #writing

AT THE SCOTT EXHIBITION, EDINBURGH FESTIVAL
Iain Crichton Smith

He will outlast us, churning out his books,
advocate and historian, his prose
earning him Abbotsford with its borrowed gates,
its cheap mementos from the land he made.
Walking the room together in this merciless
galaxy of manuscripts and notes
I am exhausted by such energy.
I hold your hand for guidance. Over your brow
the green light falls from tall and narrow windows.
His style is ignorant of this tenderness,
the vulnerable angle of your body
below the Raeburn with its steady gaze.

It was all in his life, not in his books
‘Oh I am dying, take me home to Scotland
where I can breathe though that breath were my last.’
He limped through an Edinburgh being made anew.
He worked his way through debts, past a dead wife.
My dear, we love each other in our weakness
as he with white grave face diminishing through
stroke after stroke down to the unpaid room.
We know what we are but know not what we will be.
I tremble in this factory of books.
What love he must have lost to write so much.

Why weep ye by the tide, ladie?
Why weep ye by the tide?
I’ll wed ye to my youngest son,
And ye sall be his bride…

“The first stanza of this ballad is ancient. The others were written for Mr Campbell’s ALBYN’S ANTHOLOGY”

“Jock of Hazeldean” (Child 293), by Sir Walter Scott – sung by Jean Redpath

10/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbzUR8MFWTk

#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #Romanticism #19thcentury #ballads #folksong #music

#walterscott

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