William Bell Scottウィリアム・ベル・スコット / 1811-90

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1811年9月、エディンバラに生まれる。ラファエル前派の芸術運動に共鳴した詩人、画家であり、D. G. Rossetti (1828-82) や A. C. Swinburne (1837-1909) などと親交があった。彼の最も評価される詩集 Poems by William Bell Scott (1875) は彼自身が描いた挿絵に彩られ、”The Witch’s Ballad” などのアンソロジーピースを生み出した。彼の絵画は、ノーサンバーランド (Northumberland) とその辺境の歴史やバラッド “Chevy Chase” に題をとった絵画群など、地元の歴史やバラッドを題材として用いることが多く、それらは現在、ナショナル・トラスト管理下にある Wallington Hall に残されている。 (Y. Y.)

Born in Edinburgh, September 1811. He was a poet and painter who had a strong connection with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, as a close friend of D. G. Rossetti (1828-82) and Swinburne (1837-1909). His best collection of poems and ballads, Poems by William Bell Scott (1875) with his own illustrations, included some anthology pieces such as “The Witch’s Ballad”. He often took for his paintings the subject of local history and ballads, and a series of pictures, depicting the history of Northumberland and the border, and those in the subject of the ballad “Chevy Chase”, are kept at the Wallington Hall, a country house and garden currently owned by the National Trust. (Y. Y.)

原詩（PDF）

1. A Bridal Race
2. Glenkindie
3. A Lowland Witch Ballad
4. The Witch’s Ballad
5. Woodstock Maze

原詩出典

＊　Poems. London, 1875.
＊　A Poet’s Harvest Home: Being One Hundred Short Poems. London, 1882.
＊　A Poet’s Harvest Home: Being One Hundred Short Poems. With an Aftermath of Twenty Short Poems. London, 1893.