Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature

by Margaret Ball

[152] See Scott's article on Molière, Foreign Quarterly Review, February, 1828.

[153] Essay on Drama; Dryden, Vol. I, p. 101 ff., Vol. II, pp. 317-20, Vol. IV, p. 4.

[154] Dryden, Vol. IV, p. 4.

[155] Article on Molière, Foreign Quarterly Review, February, 1828.

[156] Lockhart, Vol. I, p. 431.

[157] Review of Kelly's Reminiscences and the Life of Kemble, Quarterly Review, June, 1826.

[158] Ibid.

[159] Dryden, Vol. VI, p. 128.

[160] In Provincial Antiquities (Borthwick Castle). Scott cites parallels from Sir John Oldcastle, The Pinner of Wakefield, and one of Nash's pamphlets, for a curious incident in Scottish history.

[161] Lockhart, Vol. I, p. 431. This search among seventeenth century pamphlets may have suggested to Scott the need of a new edition of Somers' Tracts. Apparently he arranged with the publishers in 1807 to undertake this task, but the first volume did not appear till 1809. (Lockhart, Vol. II, p. 10, and see below, pp. 89-90, for an account of Scott's edition of the Tracts.) Some of his materials for the Dryden were taken from this collection, but more from the Luttrell collection, to which he refers in the Advertisement.