SCOTT was twenty-six, the age of Keats at his death, before he wrote any original verse. He then wrote two poems to two ladies: one out of a bitter personal feeling, the other as a passing ...

A £1 million project will erase mistakes from the poems of Sir Walter Scott made during the printing process given the author’s hard-to-read handwriting and the speed at which the work was ...

The poem is part of a collection of documents kept at Cambusmore House An unpublished poem by one of Scotland's greatest writers, Sir Walter Scott, is to be read in public for the first time. The ...

Sir Walter Scott’s original manuscript for his narrative poem, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, is to be displayed for the first time at Abbotsford, his home near Melrose.

Sir Walter Scott: Errors to be written out of poems in £1m project Scott was given an unprecedented advance of a thousand guineas for his next poem, Marmion, and over 11,000 copies sold in 1808 ...

Whatever you need for memorable narrative verse, whatever you want for reading aloud, whatever you hope for thrilling romantic tales, you won’t find much better than the poem by Sir Walter Scott (1771 ...

The author was widely believed to be Sir Walter Scott, at the time better known for his poetry — of the “Oh, what a tangled web we weave” variety. “Waverley” was something new for Scott.

The stunning 18th century mansion where Sir Walter Scott wrote his first poetry has gone on the market. See SWNS story SWNJhouse. The Scottish poet and playwright lived at Barony House in Lasswade ...

The poem is part of a collection of documents kept at Cambusmore House An unpublished poem by one of Scotland's greatest writers, Sir Walter Scott, is to be read in public for the first time. The ...