Either way, the story is simple: a proud woman, walking in the woods, asks the prophetic robin when her wedding shall be. The robin replies — echoed by the owl, that ominously symbolic fowl — by ...

Sir Walter Scott. By Thomas Sergeant Perry. ... such as Proud Maisie in the Wood, are almost faultless in their way. In his prose-writing he never sets too much store by the scenery he describes ; ...

It is also known that, in 1817, Irving visited Sir Walter Scott at his home in Abbotsford, Scotland, and apparently sang Gratz’s praises to the British writer.

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SCOTT was twenty-six, the age of Keats at his death, before he wrote any original verse. He then wrote two poems to two ladies: one out of a bitter personal feeling, the other as a passing ...