II, pt.2.In the introduction to _The Tapestried Chamber_, Scott said, "It was told to me many years ago by the late Miss Anna Seward, who, among other accomplishments that rendered her an amusing inmate in a country house, had that of recounting narratives of this sort with very considerable effect; much greater, indeed, than anyone would be apt to guess from the style of her written performances." It must be remembered that Miss Seward was one of the first persons of any literary note, outside of Edinburgh, to show an interest in Scott's work, and he committed himself to admiration of her poetry when he was still in a rather uncritical stage.

In regard to his later feeling about her see _Recollections_, by R.P.Gillies, _Fraser's_, xiii: 692, January, 1836.] [Footnote 249: J.L.Adolphus, in an interesting passage in his _Letters to Heber on the Authorship of Waverley_, noted many of the references to contemporary poets.

See pp.

53-4.

See also Hazlitt's _Spirit of the Age_, art.