Walter Scott is a famous English writer

The theme:

“ Sir Walter Scott, his biography and literary career. Literary works”

by Kochneva Margarita

the 4 th year

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832)

Walter Scott was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet.

Scott was the first English-language author to have a truly international career in his lifetime.

Scott was a ballad-collector, critic and man of letters.

Scott's novels of the next period are devoted to English subjects, covering

• the days after the Norman Conquest ("Ivanhoe",1820),
• the life during the Tudor dynasty (" Kenilworth", 1821)
• the Stuart rule ("The Fortunes of Nigel", l822).
• the English Revolution ("Woodstock",1826)
• the Restoration period ("Peveril of the Peak" . 1828).

Of this group the best known is "Ivanhoe".

“ Ivanhoe”

Ivanhoe (1820), set in twelfth-century England, was published under a new pseudonym Laurence Templeton .

Quentin Durward

Two further novels appeared in 1823. Quentin Durward, set in fifteenth-century France.

Tales of the Crusaders

In 1825 the critics were relieved to see Scott return to the high Middle Ages with Tales of the Crusaders .

Scott united two novels, The Talisman , set in Palestine during the Third Crusade, and The Betrothed , a tale of border conflicts between Anglo-Norman and Welsh barons.

Poetry

An Apology for Tales of Terror (1799)

The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)

Marmion (1808)

The Lady of the Lake (1810)

The Vision of Don Roderick (1811)

The Lord of the Isles (1815)

The Field of Waterloo (1815)

Harold the Dauntless (1817)

The Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction was founded in 2009, and honours the achievements and legacy of Sir Walter Scott, the founding father of the historical novel.

Questions

1.What was the name of the first major work?

2.What is the best known novel of the period from 1820

to 1828?

3.When was founded the Walter Scott Prize? 4. What work is devoted to Stuart rule?

5. What novels did Sir Walter Scott unite into theTales of

the Crusaders?

Bibliography

1. https:// ppt4web.ru/anglijjskijj-jazyk/sir-alter-scott-te-creator-of-te-istorical-novel-in-te-orld-literature.html

2. http://www.myshared.ru/slide/960622 /

3. https:// infourok.ru/prezentaciya-po-angliyskomu-yaziku-na-temu-valter-skott-298352.html

4. https:// nsportal.ru/shkola/inostrannye-yazyki/angliiskiy-yazyk/library/2016/12/11/prezentatsiya-valter-skott-0

5. https:// www.homeenglish.ru/walter_scott.htm

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