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This Word, “Meddle”

Posted on September 3, 2019 by Joseph Azize

I am reading Robert Hugh Benson’s early novel By What Authority?  One of RBH’s strong suits as a novelist is his graceful employment of an extraordinarily wide vocabulary: his use of […]

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Firmly I Believe and Truly

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Joseph Azize

This anecdote about Walter Scott, otherwise unknown to me, is extracted from the writings of Mary Josephine “Maisie” Ward 1889-1975, who had the signal honour to be the great-great-granddaughter of […]

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Anne of Geierstein or The Daughter of the Mist

Posted on February 28, 2017 by Joseph Azize

Many readers do not like Anne of Geierstein (1829). Schoolchildren who were obliged to read it are said to have been turned many readers off Walter Scott’s novels altogether. I […]

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Jasper Dryfesdale (“The Abbot”)

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Joseph Azize

Walter Scott’s 1820 novel, The Abbot, has fared rather better with critics than with the reading public. I am one amateur critic who also likes it, although I would not […]

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A Legend of the Wars of Montrose by Walter Scott

Posted on December 30, 2016 by Joseph Azize

Why do most commentators undervalue Sir Walter Scott’s short novel, A Legend of the Wars of Montrose (1819)? I wonder if it is not because of the Catholic sympathy he […]

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The Black Dwarf (second and final part)

Posted on December 28, 2016 by Joseph Azize

Having said something about the purpose and possibilities of literature, and introduced Walter Scott’s 1816 novel The Black Dwarf, I shall now discuss its contents. 3.         The Issues As stated, […]

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The Black Dwarf Part One)

Posted on December 7, 2016 by Joseph Azize

“… fair play and auld (old) Scotland for ever!” The Black Dwarf, chap. 12  The issue at the heart of The Black Dwarf is that of suffering in that word’s […]

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Peveril of the Peak

Posted on November 7, 2016 by Joseph Azize

Despite the near-unanimous modern dislike of Sir Walter Scott’s Peveril of the Peak, I utterly enjoyed it, and what is more, I have profited. No novelist I know of matches […]

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The Bride of Lammermoor

Posted on April 30, 2016 by Joseph Azize

One well educated person I know considers The Bride of Lammermoor to have been Sir Walter Scott’s greatest novel. I think it is a great novel, and an underestimated one, […]

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