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Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field
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Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field, a poem in six cantos by Sir W.
Scott, published in 1808. Marmion is a fictitious character, a favourite of Henry VIII, proud, ambitious, and treacherous, who has tired of one love (a perjured nun, Constance of Beverley, who is walled up alive in a scene of Gothic horror) and is in pursuit of the wealthy Lady Clare, who is herself in love with Ralph de Wilton. After much intrigue and disguise (during which Clare seeks refuge from Marmion at a convent, and Wilton passes for a palmer) the action moves to Flodden, with stirring descriptions of the encamped armies, and then of the battle, during which Marmion is mortally wounded. Clare succours the dying man with water from a fountain, and is finally united with de Wilton. The poem contains the Song of
Lochinvar (Canto V).
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Flodden
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Flodden, or Floddon Field , the battle of Flodden, in Northumberland, fought on 9 Sept. 1513, when the earl of Surrey on behalf...Elliot . The battle is described in the 6th canto of Scott's Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field .
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Flodden (Field), Battle of
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Flodden (Field), Battle of a decisive battle of the Anglo-Scottish war of 1513, at Flodden, a hill near the Northumbrian village of Branxton. A Scottish army under James IV was defeated by a smaller but better-led English force under the...
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Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field, a poem in six cantos by Sir W. Scott , published in 1808...at a convent, and Wilton passes for a palmer) the action moves to Flodden, with stirring descriptions of the encamped armies, and then of...
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Flodden Field, Battle of
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Flodden Field, Battle of (9 September 1513) An important battle that took place between the English and the Scots on the Scottish border...
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