Author:Walter Scott

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Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832)

A prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe during his time.

Sir Walter Scott

Works

Prose

• Waverley, (1814)
• Guy Mannering, (1815)
• The Antiquary, (1816)
• Tales of my Landlord, 1st series: The Black Dwarf and The Tale of Old Mortality, (1816)
• Rob Roy, (1818)
• Tales of my Landlord, 2nd series: The Heart of Midlothian, (1818)
• Tales of my Landlord, 3rd series: The Bride of Lammermoor and A Legend of Montrose, (1819)
• Ivanhoe, (1820)
• Tales from Benedictine Sources: The Monastery and The Abbot (1820)
• Kenilworth, (1821)
• The Pirate, 1822
• The Fortunes of Nigel, (1822)
• Peveril of the Peak (1822)
• Quentin Durward, (1823)
• St. Ronan's Well, (1824)
• Redgauntlet, (1824)
• Tales of the Crusaders, consisting of The Betrothed and The Talisman, (1825)
• Woodstock, (1826)
• Chronicles of the Canongate, 1st series, The Highland Widow, The Two Drovers and The Surgeon's Daughter, (1827)
• The Keepsake Stories: My Aunt Margaret's Mirror, The Tapestried Chamber and Death of the Laird's Jock (1829)
• Chronicles of the Canongate, 2nd series: The Fair Maid of Perth (1828) and Anne of Geierstein, (1829)
• Tales of my Landlord, 4th series: Count Robert of Paris and Castle Dangerous, (1832)

Poetry

• The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, (1802 – 1803)
• The Bard's Incantation, (1804)
• The Lay of the Last Minstrel, (1805)
  • Love — part of Canto III
• Ballads and Lyrical Pieces, (1806)
• Hunting Song, (1808)
• Marmion, (1808)
  • Lochinvar — part of Canto V
• The Lady of the Lake, (1810)
• The Vision of Don Roderick, (1811)
• The Bridal of Triermain, (1813)
• Rokeby, (1813)
• Pharos Loquitur, (1814)
• The Field of Waterloo, (1815)
• Farewell to Mackenzie, (1815)
• The Lord of the Isles, (1815)
• Lullaby of an Infant Chief, (1815)
• Troubadour (1815)
• Nora's Vow (1816)
• Pibroch of Donald Dhu, (1816)
• Jock of Hazeldean, (1816)
• MacGregor's Gathering, (1816)
• The Return to Ulster, (1816)
• The Sun Upon the Weirdlaw Hill, (1817)
• The Monks of Bangor's March, (1817)
• Harold the Dauntless, (1817)
• Mackrimmon's Lament, (1818)
• Donald Caird's Come Again (1818)
• Bonnie Dundee, (c. 1828)

As editor

• The Works of John Dryden (18 volumes)
• A collection of scarce and valuable tracts, on the most interesting and entertaining subjects (also known as Somers' Tracts)
• The state papers and letters of Sir Ralph Sadler
• The Poetical Works of Anna Seward
• The Works of Jonathan Swift

Uncategorized

• The Bishop of Tyre
• The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland, (1814 – 1817)
• The Chase, (translator) (1796)
• The Doom of Devorgoil, (1830)
• Essays on Ballad Poetry, (1830)
• Goetz of Berlichingen, (translator) (1799)
• Halidon Hall, (1822)
• History of Scotland, 2 vols., (1829 –1830)
• Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, (1831)
• The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, (1827)
• Lives of the Novelists, (1821-1824)
• Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk, (1816)
• Provincial Antiquities of Scotland, (1819 – 1826)
• Religious Discourses, (1828)
• Tales from Benedictine Sources, consisting of The Abbot and The Monastery, (1820)
• Tales of a Grandfather, 1st series, (1828)
• Tales of a Grandfather, 2nd series, (1829)
• Tales of a Grandfather, 3rd series, (1830)
• William and Helen, Two Ballads from the German, (translator) (1796)
• The Tapestried Chamber

Works about Scott

• “Grogg, Colonel,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Scott, Sir Walter” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• "Death of Sir Walter Scott" in The Perth gazette and Western Australian journal 1 14, pp. 53–54.
• “Scott, Sir Walter” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Scott, Walter (1771-1832),” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885-1900) in 63 vols.
• Sir Walter Scott, by William Hazlitt. Essay in The Spirit of the Age.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.