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Home / Publications / Books / Scotnotes Study Guides / Scotnote 38

Scotnote 38

John Galt’s 
ANNALS OF THE PARISH 
& THE PROVOST

Ian McGhee

Published in: Paperback. 
By: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2018 
Price: £5.95 
ISBN 9781906841324

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John Galt (1779–1839) was a contemporary of Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen, and a friend and biographer of Lord Byron. His writings are full of acute observation, penetrating psychological insight, rich Scots language and great good humour. This SCOTNOTE examines two key novels by Galt, which chronicle the changes in Scottish society in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

CONTENTS

  • Introduction
  • The Life
  • Enlightenment and Theoretical Histories
  • Annals of the Parish
  • The Provost
  • Conclusion
  • Further Reading

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Retrieving and Renewing: a poem for ASL

   Forget your literature? – forget your soul.
   If you want to see your country hale and whole
   Turn back the pages of fourteen hundred years.
   Surely not? Oh yes, did you expect woad and spears?
   In Altus Prosator the bristly blustery land
   Bursts in buzz and fouth within a grand
   Music of metrical thought. Breathes there the man
   With soul so dead—? Probably! But a scan
   Would show his fault was ignorance:
   Don’t follow him. Cosmic circumstance
   Hides in nearest, most ordinary things.
   Find Scotland – find inalienable springs.
  Edwin Morgan, 2004

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