Sir Walter Scott's "Lochinvar"

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🗓️ 16 August 2021

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Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSAScot (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright, and historian. Many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and Scottish literature. Famous titles include the novels Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Waverley, Old Mortality (or The Tale of Old Mortality), The Heart of Mid-Lothian and The Bride of Lammermoor, and the narrative poems The Lady of the Lake and Marmion.

Although primarily remembered for his extensive literary works and his political engagement, Scott was an advocate, judge and legal administrator by profession, and throughout his career combined his writing and editing work with his daily occupation as Clerk of Session and Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire.

A prominent member of the Tory establishment in Edinburgh, Scott was an active member of the Highland Society, served a long term as president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1820–1832) and was a vice president of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1827–1829).[1]

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Daily Poem. I'm Heidi White, and today is Monday, August 16th. And today I'm
0:08.2	going to read for you a poem by Sir Walter Scott. He was born on the 15th of August yesterday, 1771,
0:16.2	and he lived until September of 1832. He was a Scottish historical novelist, a playwright, a poet, and a historian.
0:25.8	He was quite involved in politics, and he was also the president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,
0:32.5	a very prestigious position from 1820 to 1832. His extensive knowledge of history and his skill as a writer made him a seminal figure in
0:42.1	the establishment of the historical novel genre.
0:45.3	And he also was a seminal figure of Scottish literary romanticism.
0:51.6	He wrote such works as Ivanhoe and Rob Roy. Those are novels and also narrative poems,
0:58.3	almost epics, The Lady of the Lake and Marmian. And today's poem, which is called Lakenvar,
1:04.5	is taken from Marmian. It's excerpted from their character, says this poem within the larger
1:10.5	poem, Marmian. And it tells the
1:12.9	story of a young knight, Lockenvar. Because it's a longer ballad, I'm only going to read it once.
1:18.4	So I'll tell you a little bit about it now and then offer some brief comments after I read it.
1:24.9	Lockenvar tells the story of a young, brave, chivalrous knight, Lockenvar. He is the exemplar,
1:32.2	the great example of chivalry. And Lockenvar, who is faithful in love and dauntless and war,
1:39.5	he discovers that his lady love, the beautiful maiden, Ellen is going to be married to another.
1:47.2	Uh, a man unworthy of her who is indeed laggard in love and a dastard in war. And so
1:53.8	Lock and Vars shows himself at the wedding, uh, and declares himself happy to hand off his promised bride to another, but then decides to carry her off.
2:06.7	And this actually was, I wouldn't say common in medieval times, but it was part of the tradition.
2:14.3	If a knight thought that his bride was going to be married to somebody
2:19.8	less worthy than him or if her father refused or there were obstacles to the union, many
2:24.5	knights would carry off their lady loves and with or without her permission.
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