The Complete Poetry - Premium Sir Walter Scott Collection (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Romantic epics and Scottish Border ballads, with essays by Victor Hugo, R. L. Stevenson & DickensBy Walter Scott
Length53h 13m
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Gathering Scott's major narrative poems, ballads, songs, and occasional verses, The Complete Poetry—Premium Sir Walter Scott Collection reveals the full range of the poet who made the Scottish past a central subject of Romantic literature. Works such as The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake combine antiquarian learning with swift storytelling, martial cadence, vivid landscape, and dramatic dialogue. Rooted in oral tradition yet shaped by polished metrical experiment, these poems stand at the junction of eighteenth-century ballad revival, Gothic medievalism, and the national-historical imagination. Walter Scott (1771–1832), born in Edinburgh and steeped from childhood in Border legends, law, clan memory, and manuscript culture, brought to poetry the habits of both collector and advocate. His Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, legal training, and travels through the Highlands and Borders furnished the historical texture and moral sympathy that animate his verse, before his fame expanded through the Waverley novels. This collection is recommended to readers seeking the poetic foundations of historical fiction, Scottish Romanticism, and nineteenth-century medieval revival. It rewards both specialists and general readers with energetic narratives, memorable characters, and a richly imagined national past.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenrePoetry
Length53 hrs 13 mins
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Publish dateJun 15, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Complete Poetry - Premium Sir Walter Scott Collection (Annotated)
2Introduction
3Author Biography
4Historical Context
5Synopsis (Selection)
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6INTRODUCTION:
7Famous Authors on Scott
8POETRY:
9Notable Poems
10MARMION (pt. 1)
11MARMION (pt. 2)
12THE LADY OF THE LAKE (pt. 1)
13THE LADY OF THE LAKE (pt. 2)
14THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL (pt. 1)
15THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL (pt. 2)
16ROKEBY (pt. 1)
17ROKEBY (pt. 2)
18THE VISION OF DON RODERICK
19THE BRIDAL OF TRIERMAIN
20THE FIELD OF WATERLOO
21THE LORD OF THE ISLES (pt. 1)
22THE LORD OF THE ISLES (pt. 2)
23HAROLD THE DAUNTLESS
24Translations and Imitations from German Ballads
25THE WILD HUNTSMAN
26WILLIAM AND HELEN
27FREDERICK AND ALICE
28THE FIRE-KING
29THE NOBLE MORINGER
30THE BATTLE OF SEMPACH
31THE ERL-KING
32Contributions to “The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border”
33THE EVE OF ST. JOHN
34CADYOW CASTLE
35THOMAS THE RHYMER
36THE GRAY BROTHER
37GLENFINLAS; OR, LORD RONALD’S CORONACH
38Poems from Novels and Other Poems
39The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (pt. 1)
40The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (pt. 2)
41The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (pt. 3)
42The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (pt. 4)
43The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (pt. 5)
44The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (pt. 6)
45The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (pt. 7)
46The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (pt. 8)
47The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (pt. 9)
48The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (pt. 10)
49The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (pt. 11)
50ANDREW LANG’S VIEW OF SCOTT:
Literarische Zeitreise: Die größten Mittelalter-RomaneWalter Scott, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Felix Dahn, August Sperl, Ricarda Huch, Wilhelm Raabe, Levin Schücking, Henry Benrath, Hendrik Conscience, Georg Ebers, Ernst Wichert, Victor Hugo261h 31m$2 · $0.00
Rittersagen: Geschichten aus einem vergangenen ZeitalterWalter Scott, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Felix Dahn, Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra, August Sperl, Christoph von Schmid, Christoph Martin Wieland, Ludovico Ariosto, Ludwig Ganghofer251h 22m$1 · $0.00
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50 Medieval Historical NovelsWalter Scott, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Howard Pyle, George Gissing, William Morris, Grace Aguilar, Ottilie A. Liljencrantz, Mary Shelley, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Cao Xueqin, James Hogg, Georg Ebers, Robert Williams Buchanan, Lew Wallace, G. P. R. James, Pearl Poet, C. R. Macauley, Joaquín Telesforo de Trueba y Cosío, John Fox Jr., G. A. Henty, William John Ferrar, Quatrelles, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Felix Dahn, Arthur W. Marchmont, Robert E. Howard, F. Marion Crawford, Friedrich de La Motte-Fouqué, Sylvanus Cobb, Robert B. Brough, Jean Bernard Lafon, Thomas Malory, Tobias Smollett, Florence L. Barclay, Emma Orczy, Jessie L. Weston, Thomas Love Peacock, John Bunyan, Maurice Hewlett, Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Emily Sarah Holt656h 25m$0.99
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