...leaving Ashestiel. He lived very happily at Ashestiel from 1804 to 1811, and during that period wrote the 'Lay of the Last Minstrel,' ' Marmion,' and the ' Lady of the Lake,' and began 'Waverley.' ' Ashestiel,' said Lockhart, ' will be visited by many for his sake as long as...

...additional risk which notes would have involved. He was, even then it is true, a very popular writer. 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' 'Marmion' and 'The Lady of the Lake' were the most read poems of the period. But in 1812 the early cantos of ' Childe Harold's Pilgrimage...

...road.'" February 1. The Sellars, amongst others, are with us. Clara, who has already read to me Roheby, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lahe, appropriately began to read to me this morning The Lord of the Isles, the scene of much of which...

...their effect upon minds long used to the stuffy decorum of didactic poetry, completed the triumph of the Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and the Lady of the Lake, over their age. As has been already suggested, Scott cannot be put in the first rank of poets. No compromise...

...easier to discern the great novelist of subsequent years in the Border Minstrelsy than oven in TJis Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake taken together. From those romantic poems you would never guess that Scott entered more eagerly and...

..."Ivanhoe," « Kenil worth," "The Talisman," "Quentin Durward," and "The Heart of Midlothian." His best poems are " The Lay of the Last Minstrel," " Marmion," and " The Lady of the Lake." A sketch of Scott's life will be found in the Fifth Book of the " Graded Literature Readers." The following...

...relieved by an occasional verse in trimeter, it was adopted by Scott for his narrative romantic poems, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and the Lady of the Lake. The iambic tetrameter, alternated with trimeter, is the socalled BALLAD MEASURE. Sometimes the two...

..."Ballads." His waiter most successful metrical pieces, "The Minstrelsy poem* of the Scottish Border," "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," "Marmion," and "The Lady of the Lake," for the most part appeared during the opening years of the Nineteenth Century. Then came the great...

...relieved by an occasional verse in trimeter, it was adopted by Scott for his narrative romantic poems, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and the Lady of the Lake. The iambic tetrameter, alternated with trimeter, is the socalled BALLAD MEASURE. Sometimes the two...

...Scottish bar. Disliking the practice of law, he turned his attention to literary work. His splendid poems, "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," "Marmion," and "The Lady of the Lake," were received with unbounded enthusiasm. These were followed by " Rokeby " and " The Lord of the Isles."...