Walter Scott created classics in English and Scottish. He was a poet, essayist, novelist, critic and ballad writer. A ballad collection titled, ‘The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Borders’ was Scott’s first Scottish work of note. ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’, ‘Marmion’, The ‘Lady of the Lake’, ‘Rokeby’, and ‘The Lord of the Isles’, were his widely appreciated narrative poems. He produced a number of other poems too.
Walter Scott is famous as the founder of historical novel. Gallantry, romance and chivalry drive the plot of the historical novel. ‘Waverley’, written by Scott is a celebrated historical novel of the nineteenth century. His series of works on similar themes written during the same period have become collectively known as ‘The Waverley Novels’.
‘The Waverley novels’ were bestsellers in Europe and America. Walter Scott was born in 1771 in Scotland and passed away in 1832.