From the Bookshelf of Sir Walter Scott Appreciation

The Gypsies: And Other Narrative Poems
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Nov 29, 2017 rated it really liked it
A slim volume of five narrative poems

The Gypsies: Did Merimee's Carmen the acknowledged source of Bizet's opera owe much to this poem?

The Bridgegroom: an original in the same meter of the Germanic ballad Lenore by Gottfreid Burger, which was based on the Scottish ballad,Sweet William's Ghost.

Count Nulin: A parody of Shakespeare's poem The Rape of Lucrece. Pushkin wondered what would have happened if Lucrece had slapped Tarquin's face...He decided to parody both Shakespeare and history (brave man
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