Biografia de walter scott

Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832).

On August 15, 1771 the world came Sir Walter Scott, who later became a prolific author of romantic historical novels and poems admired in Europe, Australia and North America.

Although born in College Wynd (Edinburgh), much of his childhood was spent east of Scotland in the rural region of Sandyknowe, where he had been sent to recover from polio that hadafflicted (a disease that caused lameness in his right leg for the rest of his life). There he met the medieval legends and tales which then would be inspired to grow his role as writer, and learn the speech of the area. Later, his failing health meant that Scott spent a year in the English city of Bath.

After studying law at the University of Edinburgh, the young man began to make a living as alawyer. At that time, this supporter of Scottish history devoted his spare time translating works from German into English.

In 1797, Scott married Margaret Charlotte Charpentier, who would have five children. Two years later, the Scottish lawyer would be appointed magistrate of the county of Selkirk.

"The Antiquary", "The black dwarf," ​​"Poems of the Scottish Border," "The Puritans ofScotland", "Legend of Montrose", "The Pirate", "The Adventures of Nigel", "The waters of San Roman "," Song of the last minstrel, "" Ivanhoe, "" the lady of the Lake "," Waverley, "" field of Waterloo "and" The Lord of the Isles "are some of the titles published by this writer, and create literary, founded a printing and co-founded the journal "Quarterly Review".

The death of Walter Scott was held onSeptember 21, 1832 in Abbotsford. His body was buried at Dryburgh Abbey, near a prominent statue of William Wallace, one of the most romantic historical figures in Scotland.
Poet, translator and Scottish novelist, born on August 15, 1771 in College Wynd (Edinburgh), and died on September 21, 1832 at his mansion of Abbotsford-on-the-Tweed (Scottish county of Roxburgh). Besides being considered oneof the best representatives of the British literary romanticism of the bibliographic production of Walter Scott stand out, no doubt, historical novels, a genre of which is regarded as creator and Scottish fixing its first guidelines, and that contributed decisively engalanándole with several early masterpieces leaving his fine pen and its prodigious work of historical documentation.

Life

Mostdata on the biography of Sir Walter Scott come from the seven volumes in which his son, John G. Lockhart, distributed his monumental Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott (Edinburgh, 1836-1838). It is, however, an intimate biography and somewhat fanciful, more features designed to speculate on the life of the novelist to narrate, in the objective level, its becoming vital. Modern criticism,especially from the work of H. J. C. Grierson in the early 1930 (one of the editors of the correspondence of Scott) has polemics about the veracity of many of the facts advanced by Lockhart, thereby contributing decisively to the objectification of the legendary figure of the Scottish writer.

Walter was the third of twelve children of the marriage between his father, also named Walter Scott, anotary of the Scottish capital, and Anne Rutherford, daughter of a distinguished professor of medicine at the University of Edinburgh. When it had not yet two years old, a rare paralysis affected his right leg, forcing the little Walter, under the watchful eye of his grandfather, Dr. Rutherford, resided for long periods in the farm country that his father's family had in Sandy-Knowe, a small Scottishcountryside location and in Bath, where he attended Dr. Rutherford Walter continuously until he was five. As usual, has been saying that this stay in relatively rural centers was critical to the British writer aficionase passionately heroic legends and Scottish songs that later would serve as the basis for the drafting of his most famous novels. Since childhood, Scott said to possess an...