--_Introduction to the Edition of 1830._
The Lady of the Lake was first published in 1810. This edition has
many notes by Mr. Rolfe.
SCOTT, WALTER.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel.
Edited by W.J. Rolfe.
Houghton. .75
The Poem, now offered to the Public, is intended to illustrate
the customs and manners which anciently prevailed on the Borders
of England and Scotland.... The date of the Tale itself is about
the middle of the sixteenth century, when most of the personages
actually flourished. The time occupied by the action is Three
Nights and Three Days.--_Original Preface._
The Lay of the Last Minstrel was first published in 1805. This edition
has many notes by Mr. Rolfe.
SCOTT, WALTER.
Marmion.
Edited by W.J. Rolfe.
Houghton. .75
The present story turns upon the private adventures of a
fictitious character, but is called a Tale of Flodden Field,
because the hero's fate is connected with that memorable (p. 215)
defeat and the causes which led to it.... The poem opens about
the commencement of August, and concludes with the defeat of
Flodden, 9th September, 1513.--_Original Preface._
Marmion was first published in 1818.
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