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en-wikipedia-org-7271		Walter Scott - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	13492	1399	72	Scott's meteoric poetic career reached its zenith with his third long narrative The Lady of the Lake (1810) which sold no fewer than 20,000 copies in the first year.[15] The reviewers were very largely favourable, finding that the defects they had noted in Marmion were largely absent from the new work.[28] In some ways it is a more conventional poem than its predecessors: the narrative is entirely in iambic tetrameters, and the story of the transparently disguised James V (King of Scots 1513‒42) is predictable: Coleridge wrote to Wordsworth: 'The movement of the Poem […] is between a sleeping Canter and a Marketwoman's trot—but it is endless—I seem never to have made any way—I never remember a narrative poem in which I felt the sense of Progress so languid'.[29] But the metrical uniformity is relieved by frequent songs and the Perthshire Highland setting is presented as an enchanted landscape, which resulted in a phenomenal increase in the local tourist trade.[30] Moreover the poem touches on a theme that was to be central to the Waverley Novels, the clash between neighbouring societies in different stages of development.[15]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7271.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7271.txt