Wordsworth's "Fidelity" drew from this man's poem about a mountain climber whose dogremained beside his corpse.
Wordsworth's "Fidelity" drew from this man's poem about a mountain climber whose dogremained beside his corpse. This author of "Helvellyn" drew on the galloping rhythm of Coleridge's"Christabel" and a local legend of the goblin Gilpin Horner for a poem which includes the oft-quotedlines "Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, 'This is my own, mynative land!' That poem concerns a land dispute between Lady Buccleuch and Lord Cranstoun.Frederick Douglass took his surname from this man's poem in which Ellen defuses a conflictbetween (*) James V and the Douglas clan. This author chronicled the Battle of Flodden Field in his epicMarmion. For 10 points, name this author of The Lay of the Last Minstrel and The Lady of the Lake whowas the most popular poet in Britain until he began writing his Waverly novels.
Wordsworth's "Fidelity" drew from this man's poem about a mountain climber whose dogremained beside his corpse.
Sir Walter Scott