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147: CHP IV, Dedication. 148: In The Bride of Lammermoor; but Norman, and Edgar the Master of Ravenswood, are separate characters. Gilbert and now John 149 – and he don’t make enough of Montrose – but Dalgetty is excellent 150 – and so is Lucy Ashton – and the bitch her mother. 151 – – – – – – What is Ivanhoe? – and what do you call his other – are there two? – Pray make him write at least two a year. – I like no reading so well. – – – – – – – –– July 16th 1821: Byron starts Cain; he finishes it on September 9th. He dedicates it to Scott. From Byron’s Ravenna Journal. January 5th, 1821. Rose late – dull and drooping – the weather dripping and dense. Snow on the ground, and sirocco above in the sky, like yesterday. Roads up to the horse’s belly, so that riding (at least for pleasure) is not very feasible. Added a postscript to my letter to Murray. Read the conclusion, for the fiftieth time (I have read all W[alter]. Scott’s novels at least fifty times) of the third series of “Tales of my Landlord”, – grand work – Scotch Fielding, as well as great English poet – wonderful man! I long to get drunk with him. Scott to John Murray, from Edinburgh, December 4th 1821: (Source: text from LJ VI 3n) Edinburgh, 4th December, 1821. My Dear Sir, – I accept, with feelings of great obligation, the flattering proposal of Lord Byron to prefix my name to the very grand and tremendous drama of Cain. I may be partial to it, and you will allow I have cause; but I do not know that his Muse has ever taken so lofty a flight amid her former soarings. He has certainly matched Milton on his own ground. Some part of the language is bold, and may shock one class of readers, whose line will be adopted by others out of affectation or envy. But then they must condemn the Paradise Lost, if they have a mind to be consistent. The fiend-like reasoning and bold blasphemy of the fiend and of his pupil lead exactly to the point which was to be expected, – the commission of the first murder, and the ruin and despair of the perpetrator. I do not see how any one can accuse the author himself of Manicheism. The Devil talks the language of that sect, doubtless; because, not being able to deny the existence of the Good Principle, he endeavours to exalt himself – the Evil Principle – to a seeming equality with the Good; but such arguments, in the mouth of such a being, can only be used to deceive and to betray. Lord Byron might have made this more evident, by placing in the mouth of Adam, or some good and protecting spirit, the reasons which render the existence of moral evil consistent with the general benevolence of the Deity. The great key to the mystery is, perhaps, the imperfections of our own faculties, which see and feel strongly the partial evils which press upon us, but know too little of the general system of the universe to be aware how the existence of these is to be reconciled with the benevolence of the great Creator. Yours, my dear Sir, very truly, WALTER SCOTT . Download 1.07 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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