“In my estimate of the poet's true mission in this world, I hold that…” — William Bell Scott

“In my estimate of the poet's true mission in this world, I hold that whatever he says should be the vital truth in relation to the thing mentioned, man or fact in story or nature.”

Making fidelity to essential truth central to the poet's calling · Autobiographical Notes, Vol. II, Chapter IX

William Bell Scott

About William Bell Scott

12 September 1811–22 November 1890

William Bell Scott was born in Edinburgh on 12 September 1811, into a family in which art was both a livelihood and an atmosphere. He was the eldest surviving son of Robert Scott, an engraver of considerable skill and a man of strong intellectual interests, and Ross Bell Scott. The household was not wealthy, but it…

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