"series: Other novels: Many of the short poems or songs released by Scott (or later anthologized) were originally not separate pieces but parts of longer poems interspersed throughout his novels, tales, and dramas. Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature. Famous titles include ""Ivanhoe"", ""Rob Roy"", ""Old Mortality"", ""The Lady of the Lake"", ""Waverley"", ""The Heart of Midlothian"" and ""The Bride of Lammermoor"". Although primarily remembered for his extensive literary"
"Nation"".) But, the Fiery cross or ""Crann Tara"" was a device for rallying people in Scotland and did not carry racist connotations. Gioachino Rossini composed an opera, ""La Donna del Lago"", based on the poem. The opera downplays the other plots in favor of the love story. In the opera, James Douglas tells Ellen that she must marry Roderick Dhu. Some of the characters' names are changed slightly: Roderick Dhu becomes Rodrigo, Ellen becomes Elena, and James Fitz-James becomes Uberto. Walter Scott's poem, in the German translation by Adam Storck, was set to music by Franz Schubert in his work"
"poem. It was arranged in three versions for piano by Franz Liszt. The piece was composed as a setting of a song (verse XXIX from Canto Three) from Walter Scott's popular epic poem ""The Lady of the Lake"", in a German translation by (1780–1822), and thus forms part of Schubert's . In Scott's poem the character Ellen Douglas, the Lady of the Lake (Loch Katrine in the Scottish Highlands), has gone with her exiled father to stay in the Goblin's cave as he has declined to join their previous host, Roderick Dhu, in rebellion against King James. Roderick Dhu, the"
"but cannot speak; divining her wish, the king jokingly orders that Malcolm be put in fetters, and after putting a gold chain around the man's neck, gives the clasp to Ellen. The poem is not based upon specific historic events, but has certain elements that occurred in Scottish history: The influences of the poem, ""The Lady of the Lake"", are both extensive and diverse, given that both the last name taken by the leading African-American abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, and the Ku Klux Klan custom of cross burning derive from the influence of the poem (through the film ""Birth of a"
"at boys' schools. The English critic George Saintsbury (1845–1933) recorded that ""Every girl from Scott's heroines to my own sisters seem to have been taught Dante and Petrarch and Tasso and even Ariosto, as a matter of course."" The numerous paintings inspired by the poem include: Jerusalem Delivered Jerusalem Delivered also known as The Liberation of Jerusalem ( ) is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, first published in 1581, that tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in which Christian knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, battle Muslims in order to take Jerusalem. The"
"The Bridal of Triermain The Bridal of Triermain is a rhymed, romantic, narrative-poem by Sir Walter Scott, written in 1813. The poem celebrates the exploits of a knight errant - Sir Roland De Vaux - as he seeks to rescue (and hopefully espouse) a beautiful maiden, Gyneth. Gyneth is the illegitimate daughter of King Arthur: doomed by Merlin 500 years previously to an enchanted sleep inside a magic castle. The enchantment can only be broken by a rescuer both brave and noble enough to overcome the temptations used successively to distract and overcome prospective suitors, namely: The poem is set"
"Scottish Independence. Its principal focus is Robert the Bruce and Sir James Douglas, but the second half of the poem also features actions of Robert II's Stewart forebears in the conflict. Barbour's purpose in the poem was partly historical and partly patriotic. He celebrates The Bruce (Robert I) and Douglas throughout as the flowers of Scottish chivalry. The poem opens with a description of the state of Scotland at the death of Alexander III (1286) and concludes (more or less) with the death of Douglas and the burial of the Bruce's heart (1332). Its central episode is the Battle of"
"and its morality (like that of “Christabel” and “La Belle Dame sans Merci”) is misogynistic. Glenfinlas (poem) “Glenfinlas; or, Lord Ronald’s Coronach” by Walter Scott, written in 1798 and first published in 1800, was, as Scott remembered it, his first original poem as opposed to translations from the German. A short narrative of 264 lines, it tells a supernatural story based on a Highland legend. Though highly appreciated by many 19th century readers and critics it is now overshadowed by his later and longer poems. “Glenfinlas” opens with a lament on the passing of the Highland chieftain Lord Ronald, before"
"lawyer and novelist Sir Walter Scott, wrote his romantic narrative-poem ""The Bridal of Triermain"" in 1812. In this, Castle Rock appears as the setting for the Enchanted Castle from which the hero, Sir Roland de Vaux of Triermain, must rescue the maiden, Gyneth. Triermain was the name of a fiefdom in the barony of Gilsland in north-east Cumberland; a pele-tower near Birdoswald still bears the name. The association with Walter Scott's poem has sometimes led Castle Rock to be called Castle Rock of Triermain, especially by rock climbers in order to distinguish it from another Castle Rock in Gloucestershire. Climbers"
"either at Minto House, or Mount Teviot, the residence of her younger brother Admiral John Elliot, on 29 March 1805. Jean Elliot Jean Elliot (April 1727 – 29 March 1805), also known as Jane Elliot, was a Scottish poet. She wrote one of the most famous versions of ""The Flowers of the Forest"", a song lamenting the Scottish army's defeat in the Battle of Flodden. Published in 1776, it is her only surviving work. The lyrics are set to a tune later collected into a melody by John Skene. Daughter of Sir Gilbert Elliot, Jean was born in 1727 at"
"Annie Laurie ""Annie Laurie"" is an old Scottish song based on a poem said to have been written by William Douglas (1682?–1748) of Dumfries and Galloway, about his romance with Annie Laurie (1682—1764). The words were modified and the tune was added by Alicia Scott in 1834/5. The song is also known as ""Maxwelton Braes"". William Douglas became a soldier in the Royal Scots and fought in Germany and Spain and rose to the rank of captain. He also fought at least two duels. He returned to his estate at Fingland in 1694. Annie Laurie was born Anna, on 16"
"the Inner Temple"", 1800. Afterwards they were collected lay James Ellis, one of his youthful associates, and published under the title of ""Poetry, Fugitive and Original; by the late Thomas Bedingfeld, Esquire, and Mr. George Pickering. With notes and some additional pieces by a Friend"", Newcastle, 1815, octavo. Dedicated to Sir Walter Scott. The most laboured of his poems is 'The Triumph of Beauty', addressed to the Duchess of Devonshire on her successful canvass for Charles James Fox in 1784; but his best-known piece is the ""Instructions to a Porter"", which has appeared in several collections. These references are found"
"of the wood of a dule tree in the fictional town of Barchester, the tree having been known as 'the Hanging Oak'. A Scottish ballad, ""The Wronged Mason,"" tells of one Lambert Lamkin who is hanged on the dule-tree of Balwearie Castle in Fife. ""The Dule Tree"" was published in 2004 by Finavon Print in association with the Elphinstone Institute, to mark the end of Sheena Blackhall's residency as Creative Writer in Scots at the University of Aberdeen. ""The Black Douglas"" (1899) by S. R. Crockett (1859–1914) has the line ""and let that wight remember that the Douglas does not"
"and damage the natural landscape. In 2007, negotiations took place to relocate the development to Dale View quarry in a less sensitive area. The landscapes of the Peak have inspired writers for centuries. Various places have been identified by Ralph Elliott and others as locations in the 14th-century poem ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight""; Lud's Church is thought to be the Green Chapel. Key scenes in Jane Austen's 1813 novel ""Pride and Prejudice"" are set in the Peak . ""Peveril of the Peak"" (1823) by Sir Walter Scott is a historical novel set at Peveril Castle, Castleton during the"
"Jean Elliot Jean Elliot (April 1727 – 29 March 1805), also known as Jane Elliot, was a Scottish poet. She wrote one of the most famous versions of ""The Flowers of the Forest"", a song lamenting the Scottish army's defeat in the Battle of Flodden. Published in 1776, it is her only surviving work. The lyrics are set to a tune later collected into a melody by John Skene. Daughter of Sir Gilbert Elliot, Jean was born in 1727 at Minto House in Teviotdale. During the Jacobite rising of 1745, when a party of Jacobites came to arrest her influential"
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the poem lacks meaning. All in the golden afternoon... ""All in the golden afternoon"" is the prefatory poem in the book ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" by Lewis Carroll. The book was first published in 1865 by London's Macmillan. The introductory poem recalls the afternoon on which he improvised the story about Alice in Wonderland on a boat trip from Oxford to Godstow, for the benefit of the three Liddell sisters, Lorina (""Prima""), Alice (""Secunda"") and Edith (""Tertia""), with Alice being the one which inspired Carroll's main character. Carroll's ""All in the golden afternoon"" has been included"
"poems, four Gothic poems, and the political poem ""The Irishman's Song"". Elizabeth wrote three lyrical poems and two verse epistles. The collection included the early poems ""Revenge"", ""Ghasta, Or, The Avenging Demon!!!"", ""Song: Sorrow"", and ""Song: Despair"". The epigraph was from the ""Lay of the Last Minstrel"" by Sir Walter Scott: ""Call it not vain:— they do not err, Who say, that, when the poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper."" Controversy surrounded the work, however, because one of the poems included, ""Saint Edmond's Eve"", originally appeared in the anonymously published ""Tales of Terror"" (1801), attributed to Matthew Gregory Lewis."
"Alexander Scott (16th-century poet) Alexander Scott (Scots: Sanderris Scott: 1520?1582/1583) was a Scottish Court poet. He is believed to have spent most of his time in or near Edinburgh. Thirty-six short poems are attributed to him, including ""Ane New Yeir Gift to Quene Mary"", ""The Rondel of Love"", and a satire, ""Justing at the Drum"". According to an older view, ""he has great variety of metre, and is graceful and musical, but his satirical pieces are often extremely coarse"". According to the modern viewpoint of the ""Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"", ""Because of its range, explicitness, and open-endedness, Scott's work"
"Duck"". In this piece she catalogues the daily tasks of a working woman, both outside the home and, at the end of the day, within the home as well: A second poem was printed with the Epistle to Mr. Duck. ""The Three Sentences"" is a paraphrase of the tale of the Darius contest told in 1 Esdras. Laundry (1990) asserts that Collier ""tends to couple moral reformism with a certain amiable accommodationism, or compliance with the will of fathers"". Keegan claims this poem ""suggests yet denies feminist and democratizing class politics. . . . and indeed the poem as a"
"named after the poem. Rokeby (poem) Rokeby (1813) is a narrative poem in six cantos by Walter Scott. It is set in Teesdale during the English Civil War. At Oswald's instigation Bertram makes an attempt on the life of Philip, which he mistakenly thinks has succeeded, and an attack on Rokeby Castle, in which the castle is set on fire. Wilfrid and Matilda, through the efforts of Redmond, are able to escape the blaze. It emerges that Redmond, now in Oswald's hands, is the long-lost son of Philip, and that Philip has survived the assassination attempt. Oswald tries to force"
"All in the golden afternoon... ""All in the golden afternoon"" is the prefatory poem in the book ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" by Lewis Carroll. The book was first published in 1865 by London's Macmillan. The introductory poem recalls the afternoon on which he improvised the story about Alice in Wonderland on a boat trip from Oxford to Godstow, for the benefit of the three Liddell sisters, Lorina (""Prima""), Alice (""Secunda"") and Edith (""Tertia""), with Alice being the one which inspired Carroll's main character. Carroll's ""All in the golden afternoon"" has been included in some film and stage adaptations of ""Alice's"
"cloth, and a pair of shoes of velvet green"" (A) or ""tongue that can never lie"" (B) or both (C). Version E uniquely mentions the Queen's fear that Thomas may be chosen as ""teinding unto hell"", that is to say, the in the form of humans that Elfland is subjected to pay periodically. In the romance, the Queen explains that the collection of the ""fee to hell"" draws near, and Thomas must be sent back to earth to spare him the peril. (See § Literary criticism for further literary analysis.) The ballad was first printed by Walter Scott (1803) then"
"Camp,"" by Bayard Taylor (1825–1878). Annie Laurie ""Annie Laurie"" is an old Scottish song based on a poem said to have been written by William Douglas (1682?–1748) of Dumfries and Galloway, about his romance with Annie Laurie (1682—1764). The words were modified and the tune was added by Alicia Scott in 1834/5. The song is also known as ""Maxwelton Braes"". William Douglas became a soldier in the Royal Scots and fought in Germany and Spain and rose to the rank of captain. He also fought at least two duels. He returned to his estate at Fingland in 1694. Annie Laurie"
"Bonnie Dundee Bonnie Dundee is the title of a poem and a song written by Walter Scott in 1825 in honour of John Graham, 7th Laird of Claverhouse, who was created 1st Viscount Dundee in November 1688, then in 1689 led a Jacobite rising in which he died, becoming a Jacobite hero. The older tune ""Bonny Dundee"" adapted by Scott had already been used for several songs appearing under variations of that title and referring to the bonnie town of Dundee rather than to Claverhouse. Scott's song has been used as a regimental march by several Scottish regiments in the"
"Helen of Kirkconnel ""Helen of Kirkconnel"" is a famous Scottish ballad. It was published by Walter Scott in Volume 2 of ""Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border"". An early version was also published by John Mayne. It is also known as ""Kirkconnel Lea"" and ""Fair Helen"". Here is one explanation of the story behind the ballad: It was published by Scott as ""Fair Helen of Kirconnell"". Nowadays most versions of the ballad use the current spelling of the town Kirkconnel. A popular tune to which the ballad was sung became the basis for a hymn tune, ""Martyrdom"", adapted by Hugh Wilson"
"as Ballyleidy. In memory of his mother, Helen, Lady Dufferin (granddaughter of the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan), Lord Dufferin and Ava built the stone edifice Helen's Tower on the estate, which has since been immortalised by Tennyson in the poem of the same name. The tower has taken on an unforeseen poignancy, as an almost exact replica of it, the Ulster Tower, was built at Thiepval to honour the men of the 36th (Ulster) Division who fell at the Battle of the Somme. The estate was used for army training during the First World War, and the 36th (Ulster) Division"
"The Lord of the Isles The Lord of the Isles is a rhymed, romantic, narrative-poem by Sir Walter Scott, written in 1815. The story begins during the time when Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick has been hunted out of Scotland into exile by the English and their allies. Bruce returns over sea from the Island of Rachrin: but is forced to land close to hostile forces at Artonish Castle on the seacoast of Argylshire. Seeking refuge from tempestuous seas, Bruce begs shelter from Ronald, Lord of the Isles: inadvertently on the day of his marriage feast to the beautiful Edith"
"Glenfinlas (poem) “Glenfinlas; or, Lord Ronald’s Coronach” by Walter Scott, written in 1798 and first published in 1800, was, as Scott remembered it, his first original poem as opposed to translations from the German. A short narrative of 264 lines, it tells a supernatural story based on a Highland legend. Though highly appreciated by many 19th century readers and critics it is now overshadowed by his later and longer poems. “Glenfinlas” opens with a lament on the passing of the Highland chieftain Lord Ronald, before moving on to the describe the visit paid to him by Moy, another chief from"
"has been described as ethically incoherent, but recent revisions of such essentialist readings have restored his multilayered texts as attractively complex poems, an appealing alternative to contemporary English poetry as anthologized in Tottel's Miscellany (1557)."" Alexander Scott (16th-century poet) Alexander Scott (Scots: Sanderris Scott: 1520?1582/1583) was a Scottish Court poet. He is believed to have spent most of his time in or near Edinburgh. Thirty-six short poems are attributed to him, including ""Ane New Yeir Gift to Quene Mary"", ""The Rondel of Love"", and a satire, ""Justing at the Drum"". According to an older view, ""he has great variety of"
"of the commemorative flagstone in Makars' Court, and the considerable publicity which surrounded that event, she has become a flagship for the revaluation of the writings of Scottish women of earlier centuries: the other six women commemorated there all published after 1900. Elizabeth Melville Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross (c.1578–c.1640) was a Scottish poet. In 1603 she became the earliest known Scottish woman writer to see her work in print, when the Edinburgh publisher Robert Charteris issued the first edition of ""Ane Godlie Dreame"", a Calvinist dream-vision poem. A large body of manuscript verse was discovered in 2002, and her extant"
"These poems alternate between her sentiment for people in society and the royal family and moral values which she depicted in rural scenes. Additionally, some of her poems are written about specific individuals, like ""To Lady Christian Douglas,"" ""To Mrs. Hogg"", and ""Letter to a Young Lady."" Susanna Hawkins Susanna Hawkins (1787–1868) was a Scottish poet. Susanna Hawkins was born in 1787, close to Ecclefechan, in Scotland. Her father was a blacksmith. Early in her life Hawkins was a domestic servant, during this time she managed to obtain some elementary education, which allowed her to begin writing poems. Hawkins began"
"more beautiful nightingale's song so that he ""not dull you with my song"" (line 14). Emilia Lanyer (1569–1645), a poet who is considered by some scholars to be the woman referred to in the poetry of William Shakespeare as ""Dark Lady"", makes several references to Philomela in her patronage poem ""The Description of Cookeham"" in ""Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum"" (1611). Lanyer's poem, dedicated to Margaret Clifford, Countess of Cumberland and her daughter Lady Anne Clifford refers to Philomela's ""sundry layes""(line 31) and later to her ""mournful ditty"" (line 189). The image of the nightingale appears frequently in poetry of the"
"stream of victories as his armies march inevitably towards Bannockburn. There, Bruce confronts Scotland's formidable enemy - led by the son of the Hammer of the Scots: the English outnumbering the Scots by more than two to one. The Lord of the Isles The Lord of the Isles is a rhymed, romantic, narrative-poem by Sir Walter Scott, written in 1815. The story begins during the time when Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick has been hunted out of Scotland into exile by the English and their allies. Bruce returns over sea from the Island of Rachrin: but is forced to land"