Ainsley McIntosh, ed., Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018, The Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott’s Poetry. Pp. 486.£90. ISBN 9781474425193.

Ainsley McIntosh, ed., Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018, The Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott’s Poetry. Pp. 486.£90. ISBN 9781474425193.

Walter Scott’s Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field was published in February 1808 when the poet was thirty-seven years old. The first edition of 2,000 copies sold out in less than two months, and with a third edition by the end of May, a total of 8,000 copies were sold in a little over three months. Marmion remained a best-seller throughout the nineteenth century. The Brontë sisters were admirers of the poem and it is mentioned in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847).