The complete online text of Some Poems by Walter Scott.

The Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is the acknowledged master of the historical novel. He was one of the most influential authors of modern times. Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh on August 15, 1771, the son of a lawyer with a...

Walter Scott was the most influential novelist in world literature. Relying on his capacious memory and drawing on medieval and Renaissance verse romance, his eighteenth-century forerunners in the novel, contemporary women writers of "national tales" and...

SOME- translated by Rosmarie Waldrop one...somewhere...ghostlike, but the opposite (materialized) without shoulders hair eyes without arm leg let alone two skin house say on a bare field a hedgerow-rabbit -but in a blink-heretherezigzagacross just once more this once eggwhite protein energy fogwhite ghostlike engendered...

Some people fleeing some other people. In some country under the sun and particular clouds. They leave behind some of their own everything, sown fields, some chickens, dogs, mirrors in which fire now sees itself reflected. They...