CONTENTS

I. LIFE OF SCOTT I

II. SCOTT'S PLACE IN THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT

III. THE LADY OF THE LAKE 1. HISTORICAL SETTING

THE LADY OF THE LAKE

CANTO FIRST THE CHASE

CANTO SECOND THE ISLAND I At morn the blackcock trims his jetty

CANTO THIRD THE GATHERING I Time rolls his ceaseless course.

CANTO FOURTH THE PROPHECY I "The rose is fairest when 'tis

CANTO FIFTH THE COMBAT I Fair as the earliest beam of eastern

CANTO SIXTH THE GUARD-ROOM I The sun, awakening, through the

NOTES CANTO FIRST

APPENDIX

Obvious mistakes and punctuation errors have been corrected, but inconsistent spelling, punctuation and hyphenation has been retained. At the end of the text there is a list of the corrections that were made.

The footnotes in the introduction have been moved to the end of the chapter, and have been renumbered for clarity.

Note links for the poem have been added to this version.