...relieved by an occasional verse in trimeter, it was adopted by Scott for his narrative romantic poems, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and the Lady of the Lake. The iambic tetrameter, alternated with trimeter, is the socalled BALLAD MEASURE. Sometimes the two...

..."Ballads." His waiter most successful metrical pieces, "The Minstrelsy poem* of the Scottish Border," "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," "Marmion," and "The Lady of the Lake," for the most part appeared during the opening years of the Nineteenth Century. Then came the great...

...Kenil worth," "The Talisman," "Quentin Durward," and "The Heart of Midlothian." His best poems are " The Lay of the Last Minstrel," " Marmion," and " The Lady of the Lake." A sketch of Scott's life will be found in the Fifth Book of the " Graded Literature Readers." The following...

...collecting, in those excursions of his into 1 Jddaidale and elsewhere, materials for a book on Tlie Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border ; and the publication...of every-day human life than into the most romantic for tones ; from them you would never know how completely he had mastered the leading features of quite...

...From a drawing ly JMW Turner, RA Scott removed from Lass\vade to Ashestiel in 1804, and here wrote " The Lay of the Last Minstrel," *' Marmion," and " The Lady of the Lake " (Reproduced from Lockhart's " Life of Scott," by kind permission of Messrs. A. & C. IVack) Kelso,...

...l''roin a drawing hy JMW Turner, RA Scott removed from LasM\ ade to Ashestiel in 1804, and here wrote " The Lay of the Last Minstrel," '' Marmion," and "The Lady of the Lake" (Reproduced from Lockhart's " Life of Scott/' by kind permission of Messrs. A. & C. B'ack) Kelso, where...

...of Harden married to save his life, and Ashieshel, the first home on Tweedside of Sir Walter, where the Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and the Lady of the Lake were written, is eloquently described. The legend is told of the trial of strength between the wizard...

...1815 there appeared from time to time his great metrical romances, the most important of which are the Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and the Lady of the Lake. With the publication of Byron's Childe Harold in 1812 Scott's reputation as a poet began to decline....

...their effect upon minds long used to the stuffy decorum of didactic poetry, completed the triumph of The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake, over their age. As has been already suggested, Scott cannot be put in the first rank of poets. No compromise...

...and glowing interest to stimulate reader and writer alike. With three he was fortunate. As mere tales The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and the Lady of the Lake, fascinate. Bannockburn is not intimately enough connected with Bruce's wanderings among the Isles to...