Lady of Lake
W. P. 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| [CANTO FIRST.] |
| [CANTO SECOND.] |
| [CANTO THIRD.] |
| [CANTO FOURTH.] |
| [CANTO FIFTH.] |
| [CANTO SIXTH.] |
| [GLOSSARY.] |
| [SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY.] |
| [SPECIAL STUDIES IN THE CANTOS.] |
[INTRODUCTION.]
Walter Scott, the ninth of a family of twelve children, was born at Edinburgh in August, 1771. His first consciousness of existence dated from the time when he was sent, a lame, delicate child, to Sandyknowe, the residence of his paternal grandfather. Here he “was often carried out and laid down beside the old shepherd among the crags or rocks round which he fed his sheep.” If Scott’s genius was late in flowering, who can say that the budding did not begin in that early, close companionship with the Highland country which he was to reproduce so vividly in his verse and fiction?