Romantic
Walter Scott
1771 – 1832
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)
- Kingdom of Great Britain · United Kingdom
- British
- Romanticism
About
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature. He is known for his Waverley novels (1814–1831), which were, for nearly a century, among the most popular and widely read novels in Europe. He is also known for his narrative poems Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810). He greatly influenced European and American literature.
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