Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field | |
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by Sir Walter Scott | |
Written | 1806-1808 |
Country | Scotland |
Form | Narrative |
Meter | Iambic tetrameter |
Publisher | Archibald Constable, Edinburgh William Miller, and John Murray, London |
Publication date | 22 February 1808 |
Preceded by | The Lay of the Last Minstrel |
Followed by | The Lady of the Lake |
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Marmion at Wikisource |
Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field is a historical romance in verse of 16th-century Scotland and England by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1808. Consisting of six cantos, each with an introductory epistle, and copious antiquarian notes, it concludes with the Battle of Flodden in 1513.[1]