EDINBURGH - CITY OF LITERATURE : 無料・フリー素材/写真
EDINBURGH - CITY OF LITERATURE / summonedbyfells
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | One of a series of Scott Quotations spotted on the platform- connecting bridge at Waverley Station as I passed through on my journey to Iona. The quotation comes from Sir Walter Scott and specifically from his long poem - The Lay Of The Last Minstrel, I think its a pity they didn't include the next couplet:“Breathes there a man with soul so dead,who never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native land!Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,As home his footsteps he hath turn'd".And of course as my own footsteps are once more homeward-bound it seems as if the sentiment still rings true, but then the Scots are perhaps the most sentimental nation on earth! But you have to admit that when it comes to the crunch we have some rare texts and rhetoric to fuel the nationalist furnace, witness the recent conflagration that did for the Labour Party in the last general election. I live in England so am probably somewhat out of the loop but it does seem to me that the Scottish National Party success is at least in part due to the appeal of such stirring phrases, and who could deny the acceleration of blood to the brain; that comes from The Declaration of Arbroath?"For as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up, but with life itself" . (Jings)!For sure the political forces at play in the Declaration have shared commonalities with the England's Magna Carta, but for myself I like to remember that these stirrings in our historical polity represented but a modest top/down rearrangement of established powers that never, never foresaw; or would have tolerated their gravitational trickle towards the lower orders.Anyway Sir Walter Scott was to abandon his versifying. (Recognising that Byron had the edge). This I think was a good move for otherwise we might never have had a share in his incredible, imaginative processes of his genius displayed in the trove of his novels, he was without doubt, as Robert Crawford so memorably and simply puts it; "the single most influential writer in the worldwide history of the novel". Amen to that.Sir Walter Scott 1770 - 1832. . |
| 撮影日 | 2015-05-23 15:27:05 |
| 撮影者 | summonedbyfells |
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| カメラ | KODAK EASYSHARE C613 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA , EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY |
| 露出 | 0.056 sec (1/18) |
| 開放F値 | f/2.7 |
| 焦点距離 | 6 mm |