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- Scott to Byron, from Abbotsford, November 6th 1813
16: The neat legibility of the letter is immaculate.
17: B. never visits Scott at Abbotsford. you hear anything of the celebrated Pegasus? Some say he has been brought off with other curiosities to Britain, and now covers at Tattersal’s. 18 I would fain have a cross from him out of my little moss- trooper’s Galloway, and I think your Lordship can tell me how to set about it, as I recognise his true paces in the high-mettled description of Ali Pacha’s military court. 19 A wise man said – or, if not, I, who am no wise man, now say – that there is no surer mark of regard than when your correspondent ventures to write nonsense to you. Having, therefore, like Dogberry, bestowed all my tediousness upon your Lordship, 20 you are to conclude that I have given you a convincing proof that I am very much your Lordship’s obliged and very faithful servant, WALTER SCOTT There is a lost letter from Byron to Scott, dated September 27th, that should go here. In it Byron seems to have discussed Southey, and perhaps his own indebtedness to Scott’s poetry in The Giaour (soon to be joined by The Bride of Abydos). Scott to Byron, from Abbotsford, November 6th 1813: (Source: text from Grierson 1811-1814 pp.372-5) [Right Honble / Lord Byron / &c &c &c / London] My dear Lord I was honored with your Lordship’s letter of the 27 Septr. 21 and have sincerely to regret that there is such a prospect of your leaving Britain without my achieving your personal acquaintance. I honestly wish your Lordship had come down to Scotland this season for I have never seen a finer and you might have renewed all your old associations with Caledonia & made such new ones as were likely to suit you. I dare promise you would have liked me well enough for I have many properties of a Turk – never trouble myself about futurity – am as lazy as the day is long – delight in collecting silver mounted pistols & ataghans & go out of my own road for no one – all which I take to be attributes of your good Moslem – Moreover I am somewhat an admirer of royalty and in order to maintain this part of my [ ] I shall take care never to be connected with a court but stick to the ignotum pro mirabile. 22 The author of the Queen’s Wake 23 will be delighted with your approbation. He is a wonderful creature for his opportunities, which were far inferior to those of the generality of Scottish peasants. Burns for instance (not that their extent of talents is to be compared for an instant) had an education not much worse than the sons of many gentlemen in Scotland. But poor Hogg literally could neither read nor write till a very late period of his life & when he distinguished himself by his poetical talent could neither spell nor write grammar. When I first knew him he used to send me his poetry & was both indignant & horrified when I pointed out to him parallel passages in authors whom he had never read but whom all the world would have sworn he had copied. An evil fate has hitherto attended him & bafled every attempt that has been made to place him in a road to independence. But I trust he may be more fortunate in future. I have not yet seen Southey in the Gazette as Laureate. 24 He is a real poet such as we read of in former times with every atom of his soul and every moment of his time dedicated to literary pursuits in which he differs from almost all those who have shared publick acclaim with him, your Lordships habits of society for example and my own professional and official avocations must necessarily connect as much more with our respective classes in the usual routine of pleasure or business than if we had not any other his whole soul dedicated to the pursuit of literature. 25 In this respect as well as in many others he is a most striking and interesting character. I have not yet got the copy of the letter from Murray I am very much interested in all that concerns the Giaour 26 which is universally approved of among our mountains. I have heard no objection except Download 1.07 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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