...France, Guy Mannering, and Old Mortality. His best known historical work is The Tales of a Grandfather. The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake are considered his greatest poems. A few years after his marriage Walter Scott became a secret partner...

...octosyllabic line is peculiarly well adapted to rapid and vigorous narrative and is used by Scott in the Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake. But it is obvious that so short a line gives little opportunity for ornament and embellishment. Accordingly...

...said, understood those limits better than Scott himself. When he had finished his first three poems, the Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and the Lady of the Lake, he knew that he had got all the best ore out of this vein, and that there was, apart from his lyrics,...

...translator of romantic and ballad poetry, and he first won fame with those splendid romances in verse, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake. His passionate love and admiration for the Middle Ages was in part an unconscious native heritage,...

...the collecting of ancient legends and ballads. At length he tried his own hand at minstrel poetry. The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake, first of some seven or eight long poems which came from his pen in rapid succession, gained an immediate...

...and glowing interest to stimulate reader and writer alike. With three he was fortunate. As mere tales The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake, fascinate. Bannockburn is not intimately enough connected with Bruce 's wanderings among the Isles...

...of rimed romances following the style begun by Coleridge in Christabel and made popular by Scott in the Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake. In 1813 and 1814 appeared The Giaour, The Bride of Abydos, The Corsair, and Lara. "Lara I wrote," he...

...Willoughby? 6. In what country had Col. Brandon seen service? 60:32. Scott. In 1811 Scott had published The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake. The popularity of these poems exceeded anything of its kind in the previous history of English literature....

...much easier to discern the great novelist of subsequent years in the Border Minstrelsy than even in The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake taken together." " I have contrived to turn a very slender portion of literary talent to some account,...

...versions of the ancient tales of the countryside, told first in ringing verse in his famous poems, " The Lay of the Last Minstrel," " Marmion," .and " The Lady of the Lake "; and in later days in the great series of novels beginning with " Waverley." Old tales, old songs,...