Publisher: Cambridge University Press
E-ISSN: 1745-1744|29|115|150-156
ISSN: 0003-598x
Source: Antiquity, Vol.29, Iss.115, 1955-09, pp. : 150-156
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Abstract
Sir Walter Scott ’, Andrew Lang once remarked, ‘ entered literature through the ruined gateway of archaeology ’. The influence of Scott’s poetry, and of the Waverley Novels, upon the growing antiquarian and romantic taste of the early 19th century is a commonplace which needs no enlargement here, but it should have a particular interest to us as Fellows of a Society founded for the study of Scottish antiquities when young Walter was nine years old, and to which he was elected in 1796. That one of his novels should be called