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  1. 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)

    carcanet.co.uk/9781800170940/d

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

  2. 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)

    carcanet.co.uk/9781800170940/d

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

  3. 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)

    carcanet.co.uk/9781800170940/d

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

  4. 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)

    carcanet.co.uk/9781800170940/d

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

  5. 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)

    carcanet.co.uk/9781800170940/d

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

  6. @litstudies

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

    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?

    2/2

    youtube.com/watch?v=vxBpDfV6SHE

    #Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #Scotland ##19thcentury #Victorian #novel #romanticism

  7. @litstudies

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

    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?

    2/2

    youtube.com/watch?v=vxBpDfV6SHE

    #Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #Scotland ##19thcentury #Victorian #novel #romanticism

  8. @litstudies

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

    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?

    2/2

    youtube.com/watch?v=vxBpDfV6SHE

    #Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #Scotland ##19thcentury #Victorian #novel #romanticism

  9. @litstudies

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

    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?

    2/2

    youtube.com/watch?v=vxBpDfV6SHE

    #Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #Scotland ##19thcentury #Victorian #novel #romanticism

  10. @litstudies

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

    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?

    2/2

    youtube.com/watch?v=vxBpDfV6SHE

    #Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #Scotland ##19thcentury #Victorian #novel #romanticism

  11. From Sept 2025 – 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

    1/2

    youtube.com/watch?v=twvrXYw1Sus

    #Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #Scotland ##19thcentury #Victorian #novel

  12. From Sept 2025 – 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

    1/2

    youtube.com/watch?v=twvrXYw1Sus

    #Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #Scotland ##19thcentury #Victorian #novel

  13. From Sept 2025 – 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

    1/2

    youtube.com/watch?v=twvrXYw1Sus

    #Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #Scotland ##19thcentury #Victorian #novel

  14. From Sept 2025 – 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

    1/2

    youtube.com/watch?v=twvrXYw1Sus

    #Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #Scotland ##19thcentury #Victorian #novel

  15. From Sept 2025 – 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

    1/2

    youtube.com/watch?v=twvrXYw1Sus

    #Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #Scotland ##19thcentury #Victorian #novel

  16. Walter Scott, Opera, & the Italian Journey

    “What was it about Scott’s poems and novels that attracted composers all over Europe—and inspired more than seventy operas? […] We have four on Rob Roy, four on The Heart of Midlothian, eight on The Bride of Lammermoor, and no less than eleven each on Ivanhoe and Kenilworth.”

    📷 “Lucia di Lammermoor”, Metropolitan Opera 2011

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2011/05/sc

    #Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #19thcentury #Victorian #opera #classicalmusic

  17. Walter Scott, Opera, & the Italian Journey

    “What was it about Scott’s poems and novels that attracted composers all over Europe—and inspired more than seventy operas? […] We have four on Rob Roy, four on The Heart of Midlothian, eight on The Bride of Lammermoor, and no less than eleven each on Ivanhoe and Kenilworth.”

    📷 “Lucia di Lammermoor”, Metropolitan Opera 2011

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2011/05/sc

    #Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #19thcentury #Victorian #opera #classicalmusic

  18. Walter Scott, Opera, & the Italian Journey

    “What was it about Scott’s poems and novels that attracted composers all over Europe—and inspired more than seventy operas? […] We have four on Rob Roy, four on The Heart of Midlothian, eight on The Bride of Lammermoor, and no less than eleven each on Ivanhoe and Kenilworth.”

    📷 “Lucia di Lammermoor”, Metropolitan Opera 2011

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2011/05/sc

    #Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #19thcentury #Victorian #opera #classicalmusic

  19. Walter Scott, Opera, & the Italian Journey

    “What was it about Scott’s poems and novels that attracted composers all over Europe—and inspired more than seventy operas? […] We have four on Rob Roy, four on The Heart of Midlothian, eight on The Bride of Lammermoor, and no less than eleven each on Ivanhoe and Kenilworth.”

    📷 “Lucia di Lammermoor”, Metropolitan Opera 2011

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2011/05/sc

    #Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #19thcentury #Victorian #opera #classicalmusic

  20. Walter Scott, Opera, & the Italian Journey

    “What was it about Scott’s poems and novels that attracted composers all over Europe—and inspired more than seventy operas? […] We have four on Rob Roy, four on The Heart of Midlothian, eight on The Bride of Lammermoor, and no less than eleven each on Ivanhoe and Kenilworth.”

    📷 “Lucia di Lammermoor”, Metropolitan Opera 2011

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2011/05/sc

    #Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #19thcentury #Victorian #opera #classicalmusic

  21. “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”

    —Walter Scott & Cinema

    1/2

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/wa

    #Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #19thcentury #Victorian #romanticism #novel #cinema #film #cinemahistory

  22. “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”

    —Walter Scott & Cinema

    1/2

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/wa

    #Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #19thcentury #Victorian #romanticism #novel #cinema #film #cinemahistory

  23. “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”

    —Walter Scott & Cinema

    1/2

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/wa

    #Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #19thcentury #Victorian #romanticism #novel #cinema #film #cinemahistory

  24. “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”

    —Walter Scott & Cinema

    1/2

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/wa

    #Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #19thcentury #Victorian #romanticism #novel #cinema #film #cinemahistory

  25. “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”

    —Walter Scott & Cinema

    1/2

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/wa

    #Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #19thcentury #Victorian #romanticism #novel #cinema #film #cinemahistory

  26. @litstudies

    “No Romanticist or Victorianist can excuse an ignorance of Scott. Back then, everybody read him. He was the first global superstar of the novel… Everybody read Scott, no exceptions.”

    —Prof Adam Roberts on Walter Scott

    2/2

    amechanicalart.blogspot.com/20

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

  27. @litstudies

    “No Romanticist or Victorianist can excuse an ignorance of Scott. Back then, everybody read him. He was the first global superstar of the novel… Everybody read Scott, no exceptions.”

    —Prof Adam Roberts on Walter Scott

    2/2

    amechanicalart.blogspot.com/20

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

  28. @litstudies

    “No Romanticist or Victorianist can excuse an ignorance of Scott. Back then, everybody read him. He was the first global superstar of the novel… Everybody read Scott, no exceptions.”

    —Prof Adam Roberts on Walter Scott

    2/2

    amechanicalart.blogspot.com/20

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

  29. @litstudies

    “No Romanticist or Victorianist can excuse an ignorance of Scott. Back then, everybody read him. He was the first global superstar of the novel… Everybody read Scott, no exceptions.”

    —Prof Adam Roberts on Walter Scott

    2/2

    amechanicalart.blogspot.com/20

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

  30. @litstudies

    “No Romanticist or Victorianist can excuse an ignorance of Scott. Back then, everybody read him. He was the first global superstar of the novel… Everybody read Scott, no exceptions.”

    —Prof Adam Roberts on Walter Scott

    2/2

    amechanicalart.blogspot.com/20

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

  31. “The influence of Walter Scott can be felt in every province of the literature of his age.”
    —Pushkin

    Walter Scott was born #OTD, 15 Aug 1771. He was & is one of the most significant figures in world literature

    @litstudies

    1/2

    thebottleimp.org.uk/issues/iss

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

  32. “The influence of Walter Scott can be felt in every province of the literature of his age.”
    —Pushkin

    Walter Scott was born #OTD, 15 Aug 1771. He was & is one of the most significant figures in world literature

    @litstudies

    1/2

    thebottleimp.org.uk/issues/iss

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

  33. “The influence of Walter Scott can be felt in every province of the literature of his age.”
    —Pushkin

    Walter Scott was born #OTD, 15 Aug 1771. He was & is one of the most significant figures in world literature

    @litstudies

    1/2

    thebottleimp.org.uk/issues/iss

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

  34. “The influence of Walter Scott can be felt in every province of the literature of his age.”
    —Pushkin

    Walter Scott was born #OTD, 15 Aug 1771. He was & is one of the most significant figures in world literature

    @litstudies

    1/2

    thebottleimp.org.uk/issues/iss

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

  35. “The influence of Walter Scott can be felt in every province of the literature of his age.”
    —Pushkin

    Walter Scott was born #OTD, 15 Aug 1771. He was & is one of the most significant figures in world literature

    @litstudies

    1/2

    thebottleimp.org.uk/issues/iss

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

  36. CFP: “Politics, Place, & Print Culture”: the 14th International Walter Scott Conference
    28–30 June 2027, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

    Papers are invited papers on any & all aspects of Scott’s relationship to questions of politics, place & print culture. Deadline 1 Oct 2026

    @litstudies

    llc.ed.ac.uk/english-and-scott

    #Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism #bookhistory #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #CallforPapers

  37. CFP: “Politics, Place, & Print Culture”: the 14th International Walter Scott Conference
    28–30 June 2027, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

    Papers are invited papers on any & all aspects of Scott’s relationship to questions of politics, place & print culture. Deadline 1 Oct 2026

    @litstudies

    llc.ed.ac.uk/english-and-scott

    #Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism #bookhistory #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #CallforPapers

  38. CFP: “Politics, Place, & Print Culture”: the 14th International Walter Scott Conference
    28–30 June 2027, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

    Papers are invited papers on any & all aspects of Scott’s relationship to questions of politics, place & print culture. Deadline 1 Oct 2026

    @litstudies

    llc.ed.ac.uk/english-and-scott

    #Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism #bookhistory #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #CallforPapers

  39. CFP: “Politics, Place, & Print Culture”: the 14th International Walter Scott Conference
    28–30 June 2027, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

    Papers are invited papers on any & all aspects of Scott’s relationship to questions of politics, place & print culture. Deadline 1 Oct 2026

    @litstudies

    llc.ed.ac.uk/english-and-scott

    #Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism #bookhistory #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #CallforPapers

  40. CFP: “Politics, Place, & Print Culture”: the 14th International Walter Scott Conference
    28–30 June 2027, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

    Papers are invited papers on any & all aspects of Scott’s relationship to questions of politics, place & print culture. Deadline 1 Oct 2026

    @litstudies

    llc.ed.ac.uk/english-and-scott

    #Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism #bookhistory #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #CallforPapers

  41. On June 26th, 2025: #WalterScott, American R&B singer ( #TheWhispers - "And the Beat Goes On"; "Rock Steady"), died of cancer at 81.
    #RIP 🥀

  42. On June 26th, 2025: #WalterScott, American R&B singer ( #TheWhispers - "And the Beat Goes On"; "Rock Steady"), died of cancer at 81.
    #RIP 🥀

  43. On June 26th, 2025: #WalterScott, American R&B singer ( #TheWhispers - "And the Beat Goes On"; "Rock Steady"), died of cancer at 81.
    #RIP 🥀

  44. On June 26th, 2025: #WalterScott, American R&B singer ( #TheWhispers - "And the Beat Goes On"; "Rock Steady"), died of cancer at 81.
    #RIP 🥀

  45. On June 26th, 2025: #WalterScott, American R&B singer ( #TheWhispers - "And the Beat Goes On"; "Rock Steady"), died of cancer at 81.
    #RIP 🥀

  46. The Battle of Waterloo was fought #OTD, 18 June, 1815. Walter Scott visited the battlefield shortly after; his 1816 book PAUL’S LETTERS TO HIS KINSFOLK contains one of the earliest accounts of the aftermath, & is an important early example of war journalism

    1/3

    theconversation.com/walter-sco

    #Scottish #literature #Waterloo #history #19thcentury #journalism #WalterScott

  47. The Battle of Waterloo was fought #OTD, 18 June, 1815. Walter Scott visited the battlefield shortly after; his 1816 book PAUL’S LETTERS TO HIS KINSFOLK contains one of the earliest accounts of the aftermath, & is an important early example of war journalism

    1/3

    theconversation.com/walter-sco

    #Scottish #literature #Waterloo #history #19thcentury #journalism #WalterScott

  48. The Battle of Waterloo was fought #OTD, 18 June, 1815. Walter Scott visited the battlefield shortly after; his 1816 book PAUL’S LETTERS TO HIS KINSFOLK contains one of the earliest accounts of the aftermath, & is an important early example of war journalism

    1/3

    theconversation.com/walter-sco

    #Scottish #literature #Waterloo #history #19thcentury #journalism #WalterScott

  49. The Battle of Waterloo was fought #OTD, 18 June, 1815. Walter Scott visited the battlefield shortly after; his 1816 book PAUL’S LETTERS TO HIS KINSFOLK contains one of the earliest accounts of the aftermath, & is an important early example of war journalism

    1/3

    theconversation.com/walter-sco

    #Scottish #literature #Waterloo #history #19thcentury #journalism #WalterScott

  50. The Battle of Waterloo was fought #OTD, 18 June, 1815. Walter Scott visited the battlefield shortly after; his 1816 book PAUL’S LETTERS TO HIS KINSFOLK contains one of the earliest accounts of the aftermath, & is an important early example of war journalism

    1/3

    theconversation.com/walter-sco

    #Scottish #literature #Waterloo #history #19thcentury #journalism #WalterScott

  51. Call for papers
    Politics, Place & Print Culture: The 14th International Walter Scott Conference
    28–30 June 2027, University of Edinburgh

    The conference invites papers on any & all aspects of Walter Scott’s relationship to questions of politics, place & print culture

    Deadline for proposals: 1 Oct 2026

    @litstudies

    bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6395

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #SirWalterScott #WalterScott #callforpapers #printculture

  52. Call for papers
    Politics, Place & Print Culture: The 14th International Walter Scott Conference
    28–30 June 2027, University of Edinburgh

    The conference invites papers on any & all aspects of Walter Scott’s relationship to questions of politics, place & print culture

    Deadline for proposals: 1 Oct 2026

    @litstudies

    bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6395

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #SirWalterScott #WalterScott #callforpapers #printculture

  53. Call for papers
    Politics, Place & Print Culture: The 14th International Walter Scott Conference
    28–30 June 2027, University of Edinburgh

    The conference invites papers on any & all aspects of Walter Scott’s relationship to questions of politics, place & print culture

    Deadline for proposals: 1 Oct 2026

    @litstudies

    bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6395

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #SirWalterScott #WalterScott #callforpapers #printculture

  54. Call for papers
    Politics, Place & Print Culture: The 14th International Walter Scott Conference
    28–30 June 2027, University of Edinburgh

    The conference invites papers on any & all aspects of Walter Scott’s relationship to questions of politics, place & print culture

    Deadline for proposals: 1 Oct 2026

    @litstudies

    bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6395

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #SirWalterScott #WalterScott #callforpapers #printculture

  55. Call for papers
    Politics, Place & Print Culture: The 14th International Walter Scott Conference
    28–30 June 2027, University of Edinburgh

    The conference invites papers on any & all aspects of Walter Scott’s relationship to questions of politics, place & print culture

    Deadline for proposals: 1 Oct 2026

    @litstudies

    bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6395

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #SirWalterScott #WalterScott #callforpapers #printculture