SOURCE: "The Poetry of the Early Waverly Novels," in Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. LXI, 1976, pp. 315-36.
In the following lecture, delivered in 1975, Lamont studies the function, characteristics, and effectiveness of verse passages within Scott's early Waverly novels.
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