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its economics, politics, finance, book
producing and everything about it; and
you have the same feeling for the past
of Scotland that Scott himself had.

And you understand his work - a
fellow craftsman, a fellow romantic and
a brother Scot was the man needed to do
the job. I hope your criticism of both the
novels and the verse will start a new era
in Scott criticism and Scott appreciation.

The time is apt fact. We ought to have
passed through the reaction of the last
fifty years or so. How well you expose
the fact that the failure to appreciate
Scott in so many moderns is a condemnation
not of Scott but of themselves - their ideals, and
their literary standards & conceptions. I thought
your speech some years since at the Scott dinner