The Lady of the Lake

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Lulu.com, Jul 9, 2012 - 315 pages
The Lady of the Lake is a narrative poem by Sir Walter Scott, first published in 1810. Set in the Trossachs region of Scotland, it is composed of six cantos, each of which concerns the action of a single day. The poem has three main plots: the contest among three men, Roderick Dhu, James Fitz-James, and Malcolm Graeme, to win the love of Ellen Douglas; the feud and reconciliation of King James V of Scotland and James Douglas; and a war between the lowland Scots (led by James V) and the highland clans (led by Roderick Dhu of Clan Alpine). The poem was tremendously influential in the nineteenth century, and inspired the Highland Revival.
 

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Contents

Section 1
2
Section 2
5
Section 3
11
Section 4
22
Section 5
23
Section 6
29
Section 7
41
Section 8
56
Section 11
132
Section 12
158
Section 13
159
Section 14
190
Section 15
215
Section 16
238
Section 17
283
Section 18
303

Section 9
80
Section 10
105
Section 19
304

Other editions - View all

The Lady of the Lake. [Cantos I. and V.], Volume 1
Sir Walter Scott
Full view - 1869
LADY OF THE LAKE
Walter Sir Scott, 1771-1832
No preview available - 2016
LADY OF THE LAKE
Walter Sir Scott, 1771-1832
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Common terms and phrases

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About the author (2012)

Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on August 15, 1771. He began his literary career by writing metrical tales. The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake made him the most popular poet of his day. Sixty-five hundred copies of The Lay of the Last Minstrel were sold in the first three years, a record sale for poetry. His other poems include The Vision of Don Roderick, Rokeby, and The Lord of the Isles. He then abandoned poetry for prose. In 1814, he anonymously published a historical novel, Waverly, or, Sixty Years Since, the first of the series known as the Waverley novels. He wrote 23 novels anonymously during the next 13 years. The first master of historical fiction, he wrote novels that are historical in background rather than in character: A fictitious person always holds the foreground. In their historical sequence, the Waverley novels range in setting from the year 1090, the time of the First Crusade, to 1700, the period covered in St. Roman's Well (1824), set in a Scottish watering place. His other works include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, and The Bride of Lammermoor. He died on September 21, 1832.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Lady of the Lake
AuthorSir Walter Scott
PublisherLulu.com, 2012
ISBN1105941574, 9781105941573
Length315 pages
  
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