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 ...

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 ...

All the books on the longlist for the Walter Scott book prize - The 12 will be cut down to a shortlist in May, ... (1771-1832 ...

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.

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 ...

Walter Scott Prize longlist 2024 . Book Club. Sign up to the Irish Times books newsletter for features, ... Working-class Belfast poet Scott McKendry tells me about his debut collection Gub.

Dr Natalie Tal Harries will explore Walter Scott’s presentations of the supernatural in his poetry, focusing on ‘The lay of the Last Minstrel’ and ‘The Lady of the Lake’ and how Scott’s method of ...

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a novelist, historian, poet and playwright. The prize is managed by the Abbotsford Trust with support from the Hawthornden Foundation, the Buccleuch Living ...