"Our wishes for riches are seldom satisfied by possessing more than we can use, enjoy or bequeath," Walter Scott once wrote in his journal. However, like much of Scott's life, this comment displays a ...
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Writing toward the close of 1818 on the state of contemporary literature, John Keats remarked: "We have seen three literary kings in our Time--Scott--Byron--and then the scotch novels." The same year,...
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At the end of The Antiquary (1816) the heroine receives a ring inscribed "Kunst macht gunst." This Teutonic phrase is the family motto of the Antiquary, Jonathan Oldbuck, who explains its meaning as "...
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In addition to being the most celebrated European poet and novelist of the early nineteenth century, Sir Walter Scott was an antiquarian and literary scholar of some distinction. The most notable of h...
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Sir Walter Scott was a great novelist, a good scholar, and a successful attorney. When, through no fault of his own, his bookselling partnership with John Ballantyne became involved with the bankruptc...
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Walter Scott was the most influential novelist in world literature. The sources of his fiction were diverse and included extensive reading in medieval and Renaissance verse romance and detailed memory...
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Walter Scott
Walter Scott