Wordsworth and Scott

     William Wordsworth was a traveling French tutor.  He was supporter of the French Revolution and was encouraged by William Taylor to write his poetry.  He was left a friend’s inheritance with enabled his writing life.  His sister Dorothy was his inspiration and confidante.  He collaborated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and were believed to be “political plotters.”  He was poet Laureate of Great Britain in 1943.  Executors of his estate published more of his works after his death.  Samuel Taylor Coleridge said Wordsworth was “the best poet of the age.”  He wrote about nature and memories of youth.

            Sir Walter Scott was an avid romance reader.  He was a poet and translator of German ballads.  He gave up poetry for prose fiction.  He inserted poems into his novels.  He published all of his novel anonymously.  He was “in debt when he died due to a failure of a publishing firm.”  Scott sold 30,000 copies of one of his novels in 1830.  He was internationally famous.  He wrote about Scotland, medieval times, and romance.