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

AS IT WAS TOLD TO ME
Three Short Stories by Sir Walter Scott

FREE ebook introduced by Prof Daniel Cook

🪞 “My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror”: reckless romance & supernatural theatrics
🗡️ “The Two Drovers”: a slow-burn exposé of national conflict
🔥 “Wandering Willie’s Tale”: a trip to Hell, a demonic monkey, & an unreliable narrator

9/10

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/as-it-was-told-to-me/

#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #19thcentury #Romanticism #shortstories

Literary Tourism, the Trossachs, & Walter Scott

11 essays examining tourism in the Trossachs before & after Scott’s “The Lady of the Lake” (1810), surveying the Gaelic culture of the area, & tracing Scott’s impact on those who thronged in his wake

8/10

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/literary_tourism/

#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #19thcentury #Romanticism #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #Trossachs #tourism #literarytourism

“In this democratic aspect the interest and variety of all men, there is, of course, no democrat so great as Dickens. But in the other matter, in the idea of the dignity of all men, I repeat that there is no democrat so great as Scott.”

—GK Chesterton, writing in CHARLES DICKENS: A CRITICAL STUDY – available online via @gutenberg_org

7/10

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/68682/pg68682-images.html#toclink_244

#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #19thcentury #Romanticism #CharlesDickens

“Scott’s novel concerns itself with the benefits and virtues of a globalized economy, and the risks we run if we ignore those who are excluded from it”

—Prof Ali Lumsden on Walter Scott’s ROB ROY, via Public Books

6/10

https://www.publicbooks.org/walter-scotts-rob-roy-200/

#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #19thcentury #Romanticism #economics #globalization

Sir Walter Scott’s WAVERLEY

On BBC Sounds: Rana Mitter on the writer & the books which “conjured up a portrait of the British as an effortlessly multicultural people… uniquely qualified to take on the world” – with Jenni Calder, Robert Crawford, & Andrew Lincoln

5/10

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b080xzmb

#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #19thcentury #Romanticism #identity #CulturalIdentity #multiculturalism

“Scott is the most filmic of writers… He may be considered difficult to read today, long-winded & meandering by modern standards, but his narratives still come alive when the characters move dramatically in a visual world”

—David Manderson on Walter Scott & Cinema

4/10

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/wattie-goes-to-hollywood-scott-scotland-and-film/

#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #19thcentury #Romanticism #film #cinema