Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a Scottish novelist and poet who is most famous for writing Ivanhoe (1820), a novel of nearly 200,000 words about a complicated romance in twelfth-century England. Scott is the father of both the regional and historical novels.

It was Scott who wrote, "what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive!" An oft-quoted phrase from Ivanhoe is “I have been accustomed to study men’s countenances, and I can read in thine honesty and resolution.”

Scott was also highly influential in the resurgence of Scottish nationalism, which had been suppressed since the Jacobite rising of 1745, and had a major part in the fabrication of the romantic image of the tartan-kilted Scotsman which we still have today.

Bibliography

Novels

The Waverley Novels

• Waverley (1814)
• Guy Mannering (1815)
• The Antiquity (1816)
• Rob Roy (1817)
• Ivanhoe (1819)
• The Monastery (1820)
• The Abbot (1820)
• Kenilworth (1821)
• The Pirate (1821)
• The Fortunes of Nigel (1822)
• Peveril of the Peak (1823)
• Quentin Durward (1823)
• Saint Ronan's Well (1823)
• Redgauntlet (1824)
• The Betrothed (1825)
• The Talisman (1825)
• Woodstock (1826)
• Chronicles of the Cannongate (1827)
• The Fair Maid of Perth (1828)
• Anne of Geierstein (1829)

Tales of My Landlord

• The Black Dwarf (1816) First Series
• The Tale of Old Mortality (1816) First Series
• The Heart of Midlothian (1818) Second Series
• The Bride of Lammermoor (1819) Third Series
• A Legend of Montrose (1819) Third Series
• Count Robert of Pais (1831) Fourth Series
• Castle Dangerous (1831) Fourth Series

Miscellaneous Prose

• Paul's Letters to his Kinfolk (1816)
• Letters of Malachi Malagrowther (1826)
• The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte (1827-1828)
• Tales of a Grandfather (1828-1831)
• Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft (1830)

Poetry

• An Apology for Tales of Terror (1799)
• Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802-1803)
• The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
• Marmion (1808)
• The Lady of the Lake (1810)
• The Vision of Don Roderick (1811)
• Rokeby (1813)
• The Bridal of Triermain (1813)
• The Lord of the Isles (1815)
• The Field of Waterloo (1815)
• The Field of Dauntless (1817)

References

• List of Works [1]

See also

• Famous American writers
• Lewis Carroll
• George Gordon, Lord Byron
• D. H. Lawrence