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Sir '''Walter Scott''' (1771-1832) was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] novelist and poet who is most famous for writing ''[[Ivanhoe]]''(1820), a novel about a complicated romance in 12th-century England. Scott is the father of both the regional and historical novels. | Sir '''Walter Scott''' (1771-1832) was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] novelist and poet who is most famous for writing ''[[Ivanhoe]]''(1820), a novel about a complicated romance in 12th-century England. Scott is the father of both the regional and historical novels. | ||
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Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a Scottish novelist and poet who is most famous for writing Ivanhoe(1820), a novel about a complicated romance in 12th-century England. Scott is the father of both the regional and historical novels.
It was Scott who said, "what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!"
Scott was also highly influential in the resurgence of Scottish nationalism and the Tartan Army, 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 Scotman which we still have today.