Walter Scott

Birth: 1771-08-15 , Edimburgo

Death: 1832-09-21 , Residência Abbotsford

Sir Walter Scott (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a prolific Scottish poet, novelist, and historian. He is widely regarded as one of the pillars of the historical novel and a central figure of Romanticism in English literature. His work had an immense impact on the popular imagination, shaping the vision of past eras, especially the Middle Ages and the stories of the Scottish Highlands. Scott not only wrote but also helped preserve and popularize Scottish culture and traditions.

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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.

This was really a compliment to be pleased with— a nice little handsome pat of butter made up by a neat-handed . . . dairy-maid instead of the grease fit only for cartwheels which one is dosed with by the pound.

and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh.

The Big Bow-Wow strain I can do myself like any now going; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

The play-bill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.

The hour is come, but not the man.

There’s a gude time coming.

Touch not the cat but a glove.

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Sir Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. From an early age, he showed a great interest in Scottish history and popular ballads. After studying law, he became a lawyer, but his passion for writing soon took over. His literary career took off with the publication of poems such as "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" and "Marmion". However, it was with the novel "Waverley" that Scott inaugurated the historical novel genre, followed by masterpieces such as "Ivanhoe", "Rob Roy", and "Kenilworth". His novels are known for their detailed reconstruction of historical periods, memorable characters, and engaging plots. Scott also served as a lawyer and administrator, and was a collector of Scottish antiquities. He played a significant role in the recovery and preservation of the Scottish Crown Jewels. Scott passed away in Abbotsford, Scotland, in 1832, leaving a vast and influential literary legacy.