ABSTRACT
The genial manliness of Scott's character, his fame first as a poet and then as a novelist, the crash of his fortunes, and the heroism with which in broken health he assumed responsibility for a vast debt form a tale which has become part of the British heritage. Possessing a pattern as clear-cut as any story of his own invention, it reveals the fatal flaw in character which brings about a catastrophe, but also the strength without which there is no true tragedy.
