The Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott's Poetry: Engaging New Audiences

这个项目旨在为沃尔特·斯科特的诗歌吸引新的受众。为此，它将出版五卷爱丁堡版的沃尔特·斯科特的诗歌(EEWSP)，向学术受众传播其发现，并通过教育和公共活动让公众重新参与这一机构的工作。十九世纪初，司各特是当时的主要诗人。他的长篇叙事诗，如Marmion和The Lady of the Lake，销量空前(《The Lady of the Lake》第一年就卖出了超过2.5万册)，并被翻译成多种语言，被广泛改编(罗西尼的La Donna del Lago就是最经久不衰的例子)。斯科特是浪漫主义作家网络的核心，他与雪莱、拜伦、歌德、约翰·克莱尔和华兹华斯通信。简·奥斯汀的《劝说》中讨论了马米安，1813年，斯科特被邀请获得桂冠，但被拒绝了。诸如《最后的明斯特雷尔的谎言》和《湖上的夫人》等诗歌帮助刺激了苏格兰的旅游业，因为游客蜂拥前往参观他们所描述的景点。然而，尽管他的诗歌在19世纪初取得了前所未有的批评性和通俗性的成功，并在塑造欧洲浪漫主义和苏格兰文化遗产方面发挥了关键作用，但在长达一百多年的时间里，它基本上被忽视了。斯科特很少被收录在浪漫主义诗集中，主要是从英国浪漫主义的叙事中写出来的，尽管在过去的三十年里，人们对他的作品进行了批判性的重新评估，但只有少数研究涉及到他的诗歌生涯。这在很大程度上是因为缺乏可靠的、支持性的评论版本，事实上，斯科特的许多诗歌都已经绝版。印刷中的版本依赖于斯科特的女婿J.G.洛克哈特提供的有缺陷的文本，该文本没有捕捉到斯科特对他的诗歌所持的艺术愿景。也许更重要的是，它们没有提供现代读者充分欣赏早期读者和评论家在他的诗歌中认识到的惊人创新所需的支持。爱丁堡版将弥补这一不足。EEWSP将重返手稿和早期版本，以提供干净、可靠的文本，并将提供笔记、词汇和论文，以充分支持现代读者遇到这些创新的诗歌。该项目将通过在关键的国际会议和学术论文中传播其发现，提高斯科特诗歌的学术形象及其对浪漫主义创造力的洞察。它还旨在通过提供公共活动，并通过与斯科特在苏格兰边境的家阿伯斯福德合作，开发一个教育活动计划和基于网络的教学资源，重新确立斯科特诗歌在苏格兰文化和遗产中的核心地位。该项目将于2021年启动，以配合斯科特诞辰250周年和随之而来的庆祝活动。

This project seeks to engage new audiences for Walter Scott's poetry. It will do so by publishing five volumes of the Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott's Poetry (EEWSP), by disseminating its findings to an academic audience, and by re-engaging the general public with this body of work through educational and public events. In the early years of the nineteenth century Scott was the leading poet of the day. His long narrative poems, such as Marmion and The Lady of the Lake, sold in unprecedented numbers (The Lady of the Lake sold more than 25,000 copies in the first year) and they were translated into many languages and widely adapted (Rossini's la Donna del lago provides the most enduring example). Scott was at the heart of a network of Romantic writers and corresponded with Shelley, Byron, Goethe, John Clare and Wordsworth. Marmion is discussed in Jane Austen's Persuasion and in 1813 Scott was offered, but declined, the poet laureateship. Poems Such as The Lay of the Last Minstrel and The Lady of the Lake helped instigate Scottish tourism as visitors flocked to see the sites they describe. However, in spite of his poetry achieving unprecedented critical and popular success in the early years of the nineteenth centuty and the pivotal role it played in shaping both European Romanticism and Scottish cultural heritage it has been largely neglected for well over a hundred years. Scott is seldom included in anthologies of Romantic verse, is largely written out of the narrative of British Romanticism, and, in spite of a critical re-evaluation of his output more generally over the past thirty years, only a handful of studies engage with his poetic career. This is largely due to the lack of a reliable and supportive critical edition and indeed much of Scott's poetry is out of print. The editions that are in print rely on a flawed text provided by Scott's son-in-law J.G. Lockhart, which does not capture the artistic vision that Scott held for his poetry. Perhaps more significantly, they do not provide the support required for a modern reader to fully appreciate the astounding innovation that early readers and critics recognised in his poems. The Edinburgh Edition will redress this lack. EEWSP will return to manuscripts and early editions to provide clean, reliable texts and will provide notes, glossaries and essays to fully support modern readers as they encounter these innovative poems. The project will raise the academic profile of Scott's poetry and the insights it gives to Romantic creativity by disseminating its findings at key international conferences and in scholarly papers. It also aims to re-establish the place of Scott's poetry at the heart of Scotland's culture and heritage by offering public events and by working with Abbotsford, Scott's home in the Scottish Borders, to develop a program of educational events and a web-based teaching resource. The project will be launched in 2021 to coincide with the 250th anniversary of Scott's birth and the celebrations that will accompany this.