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.[1] 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!"[2] 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.”[1]

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.

## Contents

* 1 Bibliography
* 1.1 Novels
* 1.1.1 The Waverley Novels
* 1.1.2 Tales of My Landlord
* 1.1.3 Miscellaneous Prose
* 1.2 Poetry
* 2 References
* 3 See also

## Bibliography[edit]

### Novels[edit]

#### The Waverley Novels[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Available online at Gutenberg
2. ↑ Scott's poem entitled Marmion (1808).

* List of Works [1]

## See also[edit]

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