Walter Scott Flashcards
When was Walter Scott born?
b.1771 d.1832
What is the famous literary genre invented by Walter Scott?
The Historical Novel
What was Scott’s first published work?
The Chase, and William and Helen (1796).
What was The Chase, and William and Helen (1796) about?
translation of two ballads by the German Romantic balladeer G.A. Bürger.
What work of Goethe did Scott translate in 1799?
Götz von Berlichingen
What is the name of the collection of Scottish ballads published by Scott?
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 3 vol. (1802–03)
The title of Scott’s full length narrative poem with Scottish regional themes and vivid evocations of landscape?
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805).
What were some of the other poems by Scott in the same themes?
Marmion (1808), The Lady of the Lake (1810) Rokeby (1813), and The Lord of the Isles (1815).
How many Cantos does Marmion have?
Six
What is the name of the battle in canto 6?
The Battle of Flodden.
In which works of the Bronte sisters is Marmion referred to?
Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre: St. John Rivers gives the poem to Jane.
Anne Bronte’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848): Gilbert Markham – the supposed author – gives a copy of Marmion to the central character, Mrs Graham.
Marmion contains one of the most quoted excerpts from Scottish poetry, what lines are they?
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave,/ When first we practise to deceive!”
Walter Scott published books on the works of two famous writers from the previous century, who were they?
Scott published an 18-volume edition on John Dryden (1808) and 19-volume edition on Jonathan Swift (1814).
When was the first Waverley novel published?
1814.
How many Waverley novels are there?
More than two dozen.
