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bertturtel's review against another edition
4.0
I listened to this poem through Librivox. it was beautifully read by Cynthia Moyer.
This is a fast moving traditional chivalric romance- often heavier on the chivalry than the romance. The fact that this is a poem with alliteration, repetition, and of course rhyme just helps the flow and emphasis of the tale.
This is a definite tale to put in on your next road trip.
This is a fast moving traditional chivalric romance- often heavier on the chivalry than the romance. The fact that this is a poem with alliteration, repetition, and of course rhyme just helps the flow and emphasis of the tale.
This is a definite tale to put in on your next road trip.
bertturtel's review against another edition
4.0
I listened to this poem through Librivox. it was beautifully read by Cynthia Moyer.
This is a fast moving traditional chivalric romance- often heavier on the chivalry than the romance. The fact that this is a poem with alliteration, repetition, and of course rhyme just helps the flow and emphasis of the tale.
This is a definite tale to put in on your next road trip.
This is a fast moving traditional chivalric romance- often heavier on the chivalry than the romance. The fact that this is a poem with alliteration, repetition, and of course rhyme just helps the flow and emphasis of the tale.
This is a definite tale to put in on your next road trip.
bertturtel's review against another edition
4.0
I listened to this poem through Librivox. it was beautifully read by Cynthia Moyer.
This is a fast moving traditional chivalric romance- often heavier on the chivalry than the romance. The fact that this is a poem with alliteration, repetition, and of course rhyme just helps the flow and emphasis of the tale.
This is a definite tale to put in on your next road trip.
This is a fast moving traditional chivalric romance- often heavier on the chivalry than the romance. The fact that this is a poem with alliteration, repetition, and of course rhyme just helps the flow and emphasis of the tale.
This is a definite tale to put in on your next road trip.
toad_maiden's review against another edition
3.0
I'm a sucker for both Scott and long-form poetry, but this was still just okay for me. Scott's diction and vocabulary are exquisite, but the story wasn't so much my cup of tea. The plethora of characters named "James" made some of the plot confusing for me.
ofelia132's review against another edition
4.0
I prefer this over Marmion any day. It's excellent and very well-written. Reading Ivanhoe next.
chandraisenberg's review against another edition
5.0
The Lady of the Lake is a narrative poem set in the Trossachs region of Scotland. There are three main plots going at once: the constant war between the high and lowland Scots (the "Gaels" and "Saxons"), a battle between three men to win the heart of the young and alluring Ellen Douglas, and the feud and eventual rapprochement that occurs between James V (cunningly disguised and going by the alias James Fitz-James) and James Douglas. This is the first of Scott's work I've read and I'm already a huge fan. The Lady of the Lake is beautiful. Scott's emotive description is so eloquently written; he truly captures the Highlands in all its beauty. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this poem and look forward to more of Scott's work.
"So wondrous wild, the whole might seem
The scenery of a fairy dream."
"So wondrous wild, the whole might seem
The scenery of a fairy dream."
sonshinelibrarian's review against another edition
3.0
I love the sound of poetry like this, but I definitely feel like I'm not entirely sure what happened.
velocitygirl14's review against another edition
4.0
Did a marathon reading of this and it's not quite up my alley, since I prefer the novels more, but the poems were great epics.
nicolewhopickedthisbook's review against another edition
3.0
Ohhhh classic epic poetry... I was expecting this to be about something else and didn’t read a synopsis before I started... color me surprised when I was half way through and no hide or hair of King Arthur, Merlin, or the Lady of the Lake I was originally thinking of.
Did a little research and found out what this book was actually about Scottish history during the time of King James the V of Scotland and this poem inspired the Highland Revival. Amazing history, just not what I was expecting.
Just as I feared, this poem was very dry and there were entire cantos that I just blocked out, go back and reread it and didn’t really understand it. Most of the time I was like, “what the heck is going on?!”
I think I’ll get more out of researching what this book is about rather than physically reading it.
Did a little research and found out what this book was actually about Scottish history during the time of King James the V of Scotland and this poem inspired the Highland Revival. Amazing history, just not what I was expecting.
Just as I feared, this poem was very dry and there were entire cantos that I just blocked out, go back and reread it and didn’t really understand it. Most of the time I was like, “what the heck is going on?!”
I think I’ll get more out of researching what this book is about rather than physically reading it.
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