Scott, Sir Walter
Scott, Sir Walter ( 1771 – 1832 ),son of Walter Scott , a writer to the signet, born in College Wynd, Edinburgh, educated at Edinburgh High School and University, and apprenticed to his father. He was called to the bar in 1792 . His interest in the old Border tales and ballads had early been awakened, and was stimulated by Percy's Reliques and by the study of the old romantic poetry of France and Italy and of the modern German poets. He devoted much of his leisure to the exploration of the Border country. In 1797 he published anonymously The Chase and William and Helen, a translation of Bürger's ‘Der wilde Jäger’ ( ‘The Wild Huntsman’ ) and ‘Lenore’ , and in 1799 a translation of Goethe 's Götz von Berlichingen. In 1797 he married Margaret Charlotte Charpentier (or Carpenter), daughter of Jean Charpentier of Lyons in France, and was appointed sheriff-depute of...
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