In rebaptizing Scott I was thinking of the music publishers. But the international Scottish fad (including for the Waverleys) was real. Think of the dance called the "schottische", pronounced in my day shaTEESH.
@13 - nothing's irremediable. I recommend Saintsbury -- he doesn't make the principles clear, but the examples are copious and well-chosen. (Plus he taught at Edinburgh.)
Schlegel and Tieck, sure. Also Ossian (e.g. Mendelssohn's "Fingal's Cave"). Walter Schott.
Fontane is certainly far more competent than Macgonagall -- the meter deviates from regularity only for effect. ("Tand, tand". Coleridge does this same slowdown in Christabel.) I think the mythological/dramatic framework doesn't work very well, though....
Can you spell out what you're admiring here? One interpretation would be that the campaign is invoking the beginning of the Civil War, and a defeat for the Union. From that page:
Today will be known as BLACK MONDAY. We are utterly and disgracefully routed, beaten, whipped by secessionists.
#24, 26 -- And the joke was around before Ferguson (Language Log, of course, via Wikipedia).
Rob #24: apocryphal, traditionally attributed to Ma Ferguson.
The elided verb in the first line threw me for a bit. It's a prozeugma.
Should that perhaps be "She will nae"?
11: Could the word be "techno-geek"?
#38 -- how right you are. I looked up "Harmony", and it's pretty pathetic. The discussion of "tensions" is especially lame, but the stuff that comes before the quality disclaimer is no great shakes either.
Part of the problem here is that of composing a short article as a first point of reference to a deep and complex topic. Not easy for a single competent author, and evidently even less so for a tag-team of dabblers.
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