{"id":49824,"date":"2021-09-14T04:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T01:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=49824"},"modified":"2021-09-14T04:00:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T01:00:38","slug":"scott-250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/09\/14\/scott-250\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott 250"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A website for the many exhibitions and events to celebrate the seminal writer and historian <a href=\"https:\/\/walterscott250.com\/events\/exhibitions\">Sir Walter Scott at 250<\/a>. It seems the publicity did not extend far enough outside Scotland to reach me, and I find that many are now past. Yet the roster still includes choice items such as <a href=\"https:\/\/walterscott250.com\/events\/events\/haunted-scott-2021-10-29\">&#8220;Haunted Scott&#8221;<\/a>, an online talk and event on 29th October 2021. There is also a London exhibition opening this Autumn\/Fall.<\/p>\n<p>S.T. Joshi&#8217;s <em>I Am Providence<\/em> observed Scott&#8217;s influence on Lovecraft at a formative time&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One long weird poem [&#8230;] is &#8220;Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme&#8221;. This 312-line poem was begun in the fall of 1917 but not completed until May or June of 1918. Unlike the bulk of Lovecraft&#8217;s weird verse written up to this time, the apparent influence on this poem [&#8230;] is not Poe but the ballads of Sir Walter Scott.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At the other end of the nation, and also with a faint Lovecraft connection via his Devonshire\/Cornish roots, an online lecture on 12th January 2022 on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org\/event\/the-cornish-gothic-haunted-cornwall-in-victorian-literature-joan-passey\/\">&#8220;The Cornish Gothic: Haunted Cornwall in Victorian Literature&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A website for the many exhibitions and events to celebrate the seminal writer and historian Sir Walter Scott at 250. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/09\/14\/scott-250\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}