| Evidence: | 'When Murray was about to publish Byron's "Siege of Corinth" and "Parisina," he promised to
send the early sheets to Blackwood, who proposed to hold a dinner in honour of the occasion,
to which Scott, Erskine, and James Ballantyne were to be invited. Scott [...] unfortunately,
could not accept the invitation for the day named; but, to secure his attendance, the dinner
was put off for a week, and then he made his appearance with Erskine and Ballantyne. The
poems were read, to the immense delight of the audience.'
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Feb 1816 and 9 Feb 1815 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Edinburgh | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Walter Scott |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1771 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
William Blackwood Erskine James Ballantyne |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | George Gordon Lord Byron |
| Title: | The Siege of Corinth |
| Genre: | Fiction, Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 27300 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Samuel Smiles | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1891 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 455 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Samuel Smiles, A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray (London, 1891), 1, p. 455, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27300, accessed: 07 December 2023 | |
| Source ed. quotes from letter from Blackwood to John Murray of 11 February 1816, in which it is remarked: 'The arrival of Byron's Poems has created a great buzz here. It has also got over the whole town that Mr. Scott had dined with me, and read them, and was in raptures with them I did not mean to have said anything about this, but Mr. S. and Ballantyne talked about it, and it spread abroad like wildfire' (pp.455-456). |
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