Poems of William Edmondstoune Aytoun

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BOTHWELL A POEM IN.SIX PARTS 1856] Reprinted from the third edition, revised, 1858. The revision was very drastic, but the variants are not stich as to justify the elaborate apparatus eriticus which would be necessary to et them out. The historical notes also are omitted. SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON, BART.,...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BOTHWELL A POEM IN.SIX PARTS 1856] Reprinted from the third edition, revised, 1858. The revision was very drastic, but the variants are not stich as to justify the elaborate apparatus eriticus which would be necessary to et them out. The historical notes also are omitted. SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON, BART., M.P., IN MEMORY OF A VISIT TO HOLYBOOD, THIS POEM IS INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. BOTHWELL PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION] The scene of this Poem, which is in the form of a monologue, is laid in the fortress of Malmoe, where Bothwell was confined. I have endeavoured to make available for poetical composition the most striking events in the history of Mary, Queen of Scots, down to the period when she parted from Bothwell at Carberry Hill; and in doing so, I wish it to be distinctly understood, that, except in minor and immaterial matters, necessary for the construction of a Poem of this length, I have not deviated from what I consider to be the historical truth. I have founded my idea of the character of Bothwell on the description of him given by Throckmorton and Herries: the one representing him to be ' glorious, boastful, rash, and hazardous', and the other as ' a man high in his own conceit, proud, vicious, and vainglorious above measure'. The reader will find, in the Notes appended', some information regarding the more obscure and coutested points of the history of this remarkable period. Edinburgh, 10th July, 1856. PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION In sending a Third and Revised Edition of this Poem from the press, the Author is desirous of expressing his grateful acknowledgment to the public for the favour shown to his work, notwithstanding the many blemishes which were apparent in the first edition. Some of these blemishes were no doubt attributable ...