The Lay of the Last Minstrel | |
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by Sir Walter Scott | |
Written | 1802-1804 |
Country | Scotland |
Form | Narrative |
Meter | Iambic tetrameter |
Publisher | Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, London |
Publication date | 12 January 1805 |
Preceded by | Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border |
Followed by | Marmion |
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The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805) is a narrative poem in six cantos with copious antiquarian notes by Walter Scott. Set in the Scottish Borders in the mid-16th century, it is represented within the work as being sung by a minstrel late in the 1600s.