Sir Walter Bart Scott

British writer Sir Walter Scott popularized and refined a genre of ballads and historical novels; his works include

Waverley

(1814) and

Ivanhoe

(1819).

Sir Walter Alva Scott created and called a series. Scott arranged the plots and characters so that the reader enters into the lives of great and ordinary persons, caught in violent, dramatic changes.

Work of Scott shows the influence of the 18th century Enlightenment. He thought of every basically decent human, regardless of class, religion, politics, or ancestry. A major theme tolerates. They express his theory in the need for social progress that rejects not the traditions of the past.

He first portrayed peasant characters sympathetically and realistically and equally justly portrayed merchants, soldiers, and even kings.

In central themes, cultures conflict and oppose. Normans and Saxons warred. In

The Talisman

(1825), Christians and Muslims conflict. He deals with clashes between the new English and the old Scottish culture. Other great include

Old Mortality

(1816),

The Heart of Midlothian

(1819), and

Saint Ronan's Well

(1824). His series includes

Rob Roy

(1817),

A Legend of Montrose

(1819), and

Quentin Durward

(1823).

Amiability, generosity, and modesty made Scott popular with his contemporaries. He also famously entertained on a grand scale at Abbotsford, his Scottish estate.