1823
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
Sir Walter Scott
W. G. King (age 12), "Lines to Sir Walter Scott" Ladies' Monthly Museum S3 17 (April 1823) 236-37.
Commentary for
Sir Walter Scott:
1801: Alexander Thomson
1801: A. M.
1802: Joseph Ritson
1802: Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe
1805: Thomas Campbell
1805: Robert Southey
1805 ca.: Anna Seward
1805: Anna Seward
1805: Francis Jeffrey
1805: Anonymous
1805: Anonymous
1805: Anonymous
1806: Anonymous
1807: Lady Anne Hamilton
1807: Anonymous
1808: Bp. Richard Mant
1808: Mary Leadbeater
1808: W. M. T.
1808: Francis Jeffrey
1808: Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
1809: Thomas Campbell
1809: Lord Byron
1809: Anonymous
1809: Henry
1810: Sir Walter Scott
1810: James Hogg
1810: Robert Surtees
1810: Anonymous
1810: George Ellis
1810: Francis Jeffrey
1811: Leigh Hunt
1811: Charles Phillips
1811: Henry
1811: M. J.
1811: Virginius
1811: Hugh Henry Brackenridge
1811: Anonymous
1811: Charles Philips
1811: I.
1811: John Taylor Esq.
1811: M. A. S.
1811: Francis Jeffrey
1811: Rev. Francis Hodgson
1812: John Murray
1812: Bernard Barton
1812: John Wilson
1812: Anonymous
1812: A Native Bard
1812: Lord Byron
1812: George Ellis
1813: James and Horace Smith
1813: P. G. P.
1813: Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen
1813: Rev. Francis Hodgson
1813: Anonymous
1813: Anonymous
1814: George Daniel
1814: Thomas Barnes
1814: Anonymous
1814: G. C. H.
1814: George Daniel
1814: Francis Jeffrey
1814: Anonymous
1815: Roderick Dhu
1815: Anonymous
1815: Anonymous
1815: Rosa
1815: Author of The Rival Muses
1815: Rev. Lionel Thomas Berguer
1816: John Hamilton Reynolds
1816: J. R.
1816: H. A.
1816: Anonymous
1816: John Neal
1816: Anonymous
1816: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
1817: Anonymous
1817: Anonymous
1818: John Keats
1818: William Hazlitt
1818: P. G. P.
1818: Anonymous
1818: Philo
1818: Anonymous
1819: Charles Lloyd
1819: Stella
1819: George Ticknor
1819: R. C.
1819: John Gibson Lockhart
1819: John Mitford Esq.
1820: John Scott
1820: David Carey
1820: Anonymous
1820: Anonymous
1820: Anonymous
1820: Anonymous
1821: Moschus
1821: Anonymous
1821: Anonymous
1821: Mary
1821: Mother Goose
1822: Anonymous
1822: James Harley
1823: W. G. King
1823: Anonymous
1823: Anonymous
1823: Rev. Charles Burton
1824: Bernard M. Carter
1824: Sir Whitelaw Ainslie
1825: William Hazlitt
1825: Anonymous
1825: Thomas Hood
1825 ca.: Dr. David Macbeth Moir
1825: Thingamy Bob
1825: Thomas Stott
1826: Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen
1826: John Gibson Lockhart
1828: Leigh Hunt
1828: Thomas Pringle
1829: Anna Brownell Jameson
1829: Dr. David Macbeth Moir
1829: James Hogg
1829: William Ainslie
1830: Rev. George Barrell Cheever
1830: William Maginn
1831: John Wilson
1831: William Sotheby
1831: Allan Cunningham
1832: Henry Fothergill Chorley
1832: William Wordsworth
1832: Anonymous
1832: Anonymous
1832: Mary Howitt
1832: A. S.
1833: John Wilson
1833: Allan Cunningham
1842: Robert Story
1844: William Wordsworth
1850: Walter Savage Landor
1851: Dr. David Macbeth Moir
1858: Cyrus Redding
1871: S. C. Hall
1873: Joseph Devey
1880: Goldwin Smith
Commentary by
W. G. King:
1823: Sir Walter Scott
When mourning Scotland first survey'd
Her Burns in endless slumbers laid,
She wept to see her fairest flow'r
Thus perish in untimely hour:
Like the red rose, full blown and gay,
The flourish'd but a summer's day,
And in the midst of all its pride,
Faded and wither'd, droop'd and died.
To Jove fair Caledonia pray'd,
"Behold my Burns on death-bed laid,
Grant me a bard my sons to fire
Again to deeds of warlike ire;
"Whose sounding harp, and golden string,
Shall with heroic actions ring;
And in my noble warriors' praise,
Douglas and Bruce, shall swell his lays."
Her prayer was heard, the minstrel came,
Who sung of war in words of flame,
And rous'd her martial sons to do,
Such matchless deeds at Waterloo.
That minstrel fam'd, whose generous fire,
Flow'd gushing from the tuneful lyre,
Immortal bard! Who knows him not?
Who has not heard the name of SCOTT?
The bard who wrote in tender strain,
The gallant knight of Triermain,
In whose sweet verse, the bravery shone
Of the bold hero Marmion.
Each tender passion doth he wake,
For the fair Lady of the Lake;
And sings of Cranstoun's deeds of fight,
And dauntless Harold's matchless might.
For him, the poet who has told
The deeds of Island Ronald bold,
For him I tune my humble lay,
The only tribute I must pay.
Since the soft music of his rhyme,
And his sweet harp's enchanting chime,
The power of verse first bade me know,
And taught my early strains to flow.
The lay of Burns, the fire of Pope,
The flames that Dryden's harp awoke,
By Scott's effulgent blaze of light,
Are all eclipsed in endless night.
Not his the strain, not his the lay,
That is but born to die away,
When other minstrels are forgot,
Long shall survive the fame of Scott.