[1805] - Scott’s Lay of the Last Minstrel published (sells 44,000 copies)

Useful Links and Further Reading

• University of Edinburgh, ‘Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel’,
  http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/works/poetry/minstrel.html
• www.scott-minstrel.cath.vt.edu, ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel, A Poem by Walter Scott (1805)’,
  http://scott-minstrel.cath.vt.edu/index
• University of Adelaide, ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel, A Poem by Walter Scott (1805)’,
  http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/scott/walter/lay_of_the_last_minstrel/complete.html
• Internet Archive, ‘The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott (1843)’,
  http://www.archive.org/details/poeticalworkssco00scotiala
• Jane Millgate, ‘Scott’s Lay of the Last Minstrel: The History of a Book’, European Romantic Review, 13.3 (2002), 225–38
• Philip B. Anderson, ‘Scott’s “The Eve of Saint John” and the “Influence” of “Christabel” on “The Lay of the Last Minstrel”’, Philological Review, 35.1 (2009), 1–10