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1.  Subject Name: Romantic Literature  Topic Name: An introduction to Walter Scott [1771-1832] Prepared By: Prakruti Krishna Jeel Ruchita

2.  Liberty, Equality, Fraternity  Return To Nature  Love for history  Element of supernatural  Focus on individual  Departure from reason

3.  Edinburgh, 15th August 1771  Mother was a woman of character and education, strongly imaginative, a teller of a tale which stirred young Walter’s enthusiasm and also developed an intense love of Scottish history and tradition.  As a child Walter was lame and delicate.  Died of a paralysis attack.

4.  Started off with translations from German (Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border)  Best sellers in poetry: 1) The Lay Of the Last Minstrel(1805) 2) Marmion (1808) and 3) The Lady of the Lake (1810)

5.  However, Scott is better known for the following novels: 1) Waverly series 2) Ivanhoe 3) Rob Roy 4) The Lady of the Lake 5) The Bride of Lammermoor 6) The Heart of Midlothian  Waverly or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since- set during the Jacobite Rebellions of 1745. The novel is o

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Walter Scott

British novelist (1771–1832)

For other people named Walter Scott, see Walter Scott (disambiguation).

Sir Walter Scott, 1st BaronetFRSEFSAScot (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), 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), Waverley (1814), Old Mortality (1816), The Heart of Mid-Lothian (1818), and The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), along with the narrative poems Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810). He had a major impact on European and American literature.

As an advocate and legal administrator by profession, he combined writing and editing with his daily work as Clerk of Session and Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire. He was prominent in Edinburgh's Tory establishment, active in the Highland Society, long time a president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1820–1832), and a vice president of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1827–1829).^[1] His knowledge of history and literary facility equipped him to

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Walter Scott

1. The Father of Historical Novels Sir Walter Scott 1771 - 1832

2. A Short Biography Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh, as the son of a solicitor Walter Scott and Anne, a daughter of professor of medicine. An early illness - polio - left him lame in the right leg. Six of his 11 brothers and sisters died in infancy. However, Scott grew up to be a man over six feet and great physical endurance.

3. Scott's interest in the old Border tales and ballads had early been awakened, and he devoted much of his leisure to the exploration of the Border country. His early years Scott spent in Sandy-Know, in the residence of his paternal grandfather. There his grandmother told him tales of old heroes.

4. At the age of eight he returned to Edinburgh. He attended Edinburgh High School (1779-1783) and studied at Edinburgh University arts and law (1783-86, 1789-92). At the age of sixteen he had already started to collect old ballads and later translated into English Gottfried Bürger's ballads 'The Wild Huntsman' and 'Lenore' and 'Goetz of