Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott 

Introduction 

Sir Walter Scott was born on 15 August 1771. In Edinburgh , Scotland. And he was died 21 sep 1832. In Abbotsford Roxburghshire , Scotland.  And the period of the 19th century. He was a Scottish novelist , poet and historian many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature notably the novels. Ivanhoe (1819) , Rob Roy (1817), waverly (1814), old morality (1816), The Heart of Mid- Lothian (1818) , and the Bride of lammermoor (1819) , along with the narrative poems marmion (1808) ans the Lady of the lake (1810). He had a major impact on European and American literature.

Early life :

Walter Scott was born on 15 August 1771 in a third - floor apartment on college wynd in the old town Edinburgh a narrow alleyway leading from the Cowgate to the gates of old University of Edinburgh. He was the ninth child of Walter Scott (1729-1799) a member of a cadet branch of the clan Scott and a writer to the signet , and his wife Anne Rutherford a sister of Daniel Rutherford and a descendant both of the clan Swinton .

The poet : 

Between 1805 and 1817 Scott produced five long, six - canto narrative poems, four shorter independently published poems, and many small metrical pieces. Scott was by far the most popular poet of the time until.Lord Byron published the first two cantos of child Harold's pilgrimage in 1812 and followed them up with his exotic oriental verse narrative.

    

    The Lady of the last Minstrel (1805) in medieval romance grew. Out of Scott's plan to include a long original poem of his own.

    

     He owned the distinctive irregular accent in four - beat metre to Coleridge's christabel.

   Three years after The Lay Scott published Marmion (1808) telling a story of occupt passions leading up as a disastrous climax to the Battle of flodden in 1513.

Religion: 

Scott was raised as a Presbyterian in the church of Scotland as an elder in Duddingston kirk in 1806, and set in the General Assembly for a time as representative elder of the of Selkirk.

Novels:

The Waverley novels is the title given to the long series of Scott novels released from 1814 to 1832 which takes its name from the first novel Waverley. The following is a chronological list of the entire series.

Waverley - 1814

Guy Mannering - 1815

The Antiquary - 1816

Rob Roy - 1817

The Heart of Mid - Lothian - 1818

The Bride of Lammermoor - 1819 

Ivanhoe - 1819

The Monastery - 1820

The siege of Malta - 1831-1832

Short stories :

" The inferno of Altisidora"  - 1811

"Christopher corduroy "  - 1817

  "Phantasmagoria " - 1818

"My Aunt Margaret's Mirror"  -1828

Poetry :

Many of the short poems or songs released by Scott were originally not separate pieces but parts of longer poems. 

The Lady of the last Minstrel - 1805 

Marmion - 1808 

The Lady of the lake - 1810

 Plays :

1799 Goetz of Berlichingen, with the iron Hand A Tragedy - an English -  language translations of the 1773 German - language play by Johann - Wolfgang von Goe the entitled Gotz von Berlichingen. 

Halidon Hill - 1822

Macduff 's cross - 1823

References :

1. " Famous fellows" 

__ society of Antiqualifies of Scotland Retrieved 18 January 2019 

2. Family Background 

__ Walter Scott Edinburgh University library 24 October 2003 

3. Edinburgh University library (22 oct 2004). " Homes of sir Walter Scott". Edinburgh University library Retrieved 9 July 2013.