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The Lay of the Last Minstrel is a six-canto poem by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1805, about a widowed lady blaming Lord Cranstoun for her husband's death.

The Lay of the Last Minstrel is a six-canto poem by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1805, about a widowed lady blaming Lord Cranstoun for her husband's death.

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6 cantos
Sir walter Scott
1805
The widowed lady of Branksome Hall blames her husband's death on lord Cranstoun who is in love with her daughter Margaret
The Lay of the Last Minstrel" (1805) is a long narrative poem by Walter Scott. (It should not be confused with Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, also by Walter Scott, compiled three years previously.)

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