. Autobiographical notes of the life of William Bell Scott : and notices of his artistic and poetic circle of friends, 1830 to 1882 . understand him/ He had brought a massof proofs, and nearly every day brought himmore. But besides he was writing better than inthe earlier days: both Eden Bozvcr and TroyTown were elaborated now. Almost every dayhe would seclude himself in the glen. Here Iused to find him face to the wall lying in a shallowcave that went by the name of a seventeenth-century Covenanter, Bennans Cave, working outwith much elaboration and little inspiration. The 1 [In the Illustrat
. Autobiographical notes of the life of William Bell Scott : and notices of his artistic and poetic circle of friends, 1830 to 1882 . understand him/ He had brought a massof proofs, and nearly every day brought himmore. But besides he was writing better than inthe earlier days: both Eden Bozvcr and TroyTown were elaborated now. Almost every dayhe would seclude himself in the glen. Here Iused to find him face to the wall lying in a shallowcave that went by the name of a seventeenth-century Covenanter, Bennans Cave, working outwith much elaboration and little inspiration. The 1 [In the Illustrations already quoted, Mr. Scott says of Ros-setti : His whole nature destined him to have a tragic, not a comicor placid background to his journey in this world. This, and his pro-found love of, and actual faith in, the marvellous, made him not onlythe dearest of friends before bad health o\ertook him, but the mostinteresting of men.—Ed.] D. G. ROSSETTI Streams Secret. After it was done he did notknow what to call this poem, till reading-over my series of sonnets called The Old ScotchHo2tse, and finding one called The Streams. Secret, he simply appropriated that name for hisown performance. Nothing would restrain him : No name in the world would suit me but that, itexpresses what I want! No doubt it did, but italso expressed what I wanted to say in my sonnet, ii6 IVILLfAM BELL SCOTT chap. which ended the octave with the words passingaway, and the sestet with the truth, but never pastaway. A deadly quarrel I could not bear, so here,as always, he had his way. One advantage he • gained in these visits toPenkill was a knowledge of The Kings Qiiair, , cahicr, or quire of paper, and an interest inthe authors death, which afterwards germinatedinto The KiJigs Tragedy. Perfectly acquaintedwith the early poetry of his own country, properlyso called, he knew nothing of that of this country,and the perfectness of the scheme of The KingsQiiair struck him with wonder. Pity it was
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