...the Highlands of Scotland. In this land Fancy is free to wander far. Tis Fancy's land to which them sett'st thy feet ; Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet Beneath each birken shade on mead or hill.1 But it is not only of Scotland that the poet speaks ; we know he is also thinking of — " That...

...poet, and his song demand : To thee thy copious subjects ne'er shall fail ; Thou need'st but take the pencil to thy hand, And paint what all believe who own thy genial land. 3202 N 353 There must thou wake perforce thy Doric quill, 'Tis Fancy's land to which thou sett'st thy...

...to find a fitter audience: To Thee thy copious Subjects ne'er shall fail Thou need'st but take the Pencil to thy Hand And paint what all believe who own thy Genial Land. (lines 15-17) Those who "own" this spirit-filled wilderness, as opposed to the patrons of London, can...

...poet and his song demand: To thee thy copious subjects ne'er shall fail; Thou need'st but take the pencil to thy hand, And paint what all believe who...thy genial land. There must thou wake perforce thy Doric-1 quill, Tis Fancy's land to which thou sett'st thy feet; Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people...

...subjectivity characterized by its essentially poetic capacity for belief: "Thou [Home] need'st but take the pencil to thy hand / And paint what all believe who own thy genial land" (16-17). Highland literality is always already literary, in need of only the barest mediation to become...

...poet, and his song demand: To thee thy copious subjects ne'er shall fail: Thou need'st but take the pencil to thy hand, And paint what all believe who...still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet Beneath each hirken shade, on mead or hill.1 1 The rest of the poem accomplishes what Collins in these lines suggests,...

...makes clear in the second stanza of his Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland, 'Tis Fancy's land to which thou sett'st thy feet;...the Fairy people meet, Beneath each birken shade, or mead, or hill', in Mrs Barbauld (ed.), The Poetical Works of Mr William Collins (London, 1797)....

...to the Scottish author John Home. The ode was written in 1749 and first appeared in print in 1788. There must thou wake perforce thy Doric quill, 'Tis...feet; Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet 7. "The Pedlar," MS E, in The Ruined Cottage and The Pedlar, ed. James Butler, 396; cf. Excursion,...

...turn'st, whose every vale / Shall prompt the poet and his song demand . . . Thou needs 't but take the pencil to thy hand, / And paint what all believe who own thy genial land" (13—14, 16—17). Here, Scotland is figured primarily as a landscape that exists to "prompt" the...

...poet, and his fong demand : To thee thy copious fubjedls ne'er mail fail ; Thou need'ft but take the pencil to thy hand, And paint what all believe who own thy genial land. II. THERE muft thou wake perforce thy Doric quill, 'Tis Fancy's land to which thou fett'ft thy feet...