Walter Scott

 

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Longer Poems and Anthologies Available as E-Texts

Follow the links below for online texts of Scott's book-length narrative poems and of anthologies published during Scott's lifetime. Only freely available texts have been listed. In most cases, the link will take you directly to the text. In others, it will direct you to a clickable list of the Scott texts published by the provider. Where known, we have indicated the source edition for the e-text.

Since this page was inaugurated, a large number of Scott etexts have been made available by the Internet Archive and Google Books. Rather than maintain a full listing of these, we have listed only the earliest edition (in many cases the First Edition) supplied by these providers.

The list of texts should not be regarded as comprehensive, but the page editor would be pleased to hear of significant omissions. For further information on the poems themselves, see Works.

This page also lists substantial extracts from Scott's narrative poems. For shorter, self-contained lyrics extracted from Scott's longer poems, click here.

1. Ballads and Lyrical Pieces

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2. The Bridal of Triermain

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3. The Field of Waterloo

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4. Harold the Dauntless

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5. The Lady of the Lake

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  • Ceska Citanka (Czech translation of Canto I, Stanzas 1-17: 'The Chase'; source text: J. Vrchlický (ed.), Moderní básníci anglictí. Prague: J. R. Vilímek, 1898)
  • GENUKI (Canto I, stanzas 1-5: the feast at Branksome Hall)
  • Representative Poetry Online (Canto V, stanzas 9-16: 'Fitz-James and Roderick Dhu')

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6. The Lay of the Last Minstrel

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7. The Lord of the Isles

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  • Rampant Scotland (Canto VI, Stanza XV: Robert the Bruce's combat with Sir Henry de Bohun)

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8. Marmion

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  • Allpoetry - (Introduction to Canto I, lines 53-195: 'To mute and to material things')
  • Allpoetry (Introduction to Canto VI, lines 1-84: 'Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill')
  • Allpoetry (Introduction to Canto VI, lines 24-49: 'And well our Christian sires of old')
  • Bartleby (Introduction to Canto I, lines 53-195: 'To mute and to material things' from The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. Oxford: Clarendon, 1919)
  • Christmas Time (Introduction to Canto VI, lines 1-84: 'Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill')
  • Oxford Text Archive (Introduction to Canto I, lines 1-52, 53-195; Canto I, Stanzas 3-7, 22-26; Introduction to Canto II, lines 92-173; Canto II, Stanzas 9-12, 24-27; Introduction to Canto III, lines 105-87; Canto III, Stanzas 15-17, 25-28; Introduction to Canto IV, lines 156-215; Canto IV, Stanzas 13-16, 27-30; Canto V, Stanzas 1-3, 12 ('Lochinvar'), 20-21, 31-32; Introduction to Canto VI, lines 155-234; Canto VI, Stanzas 8-10, 19-20, 29-30; L'Envoy)
  • Representative Poetry Online (Canto VI, stanzas 18-38: 'Next morn the Baron climb'd the tower; source text: first edition)

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9. Rokeby

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10. The Vision of Don Roderick

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Last updated: 23-May-2016
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