" This particular line of criticism also misses the obvious parallels that existed between the story's background ( England conquered by the Normans in 1066, when they killed Saxon King Harold at Hastings, about 130 years previously ) and the prevailing situation in Scott's native Scotland ( Scotland's union with England in 1707 – about the same length of time had elapsed before Scott's writing and the resurgence in his time of Scottish nationalism evidenced by the cult of Robert Burns, the famous poet who deliberately chose to work in Scots vernacular though he was an educated man and spoke modern English eloquently ).

Nineteenth-century fictional depictions of John were heavily influenced by Sir Walter Scott's historical romance, Ivanhoe, which presented " an almost totally unfavourable picture " of the king ; the work drew on Victorian histories of the period and on Shakespeare's play.

The couple had two sons, Jake and Luke, both of whom work as directors on Scott's production company Ridley Scott Associates.

Much of Scott's autograph work shows an almost stream-of-consciousness approach to writing.

After being essentially unstudied for many decades, a small revival of critical interest in Scott's work began in the 1970s and 1980s.

Postmodern tastes favoured discontinuous narratives and the introduction of the ' first person ', yet they were more favourable to Scott's work than Modernist tastes.

Scott's work in the 1870s included the installation of large gas chandeliers made by the Coventry metalworker Francis Skidmore.

Whereas Scott's work had clearly been in sympathy with the existing building, Grimthorpe's plans reflected the Victorian ideal.

In a 2005 study of Scott's work, John Thomas observes that Scott senior's " important church of St Agnes, Kennington ( 1874 – 77 ; 1880s – 93 ) clearly influenced Giles's early work, including Liverpool Cathedral Lady Chapel.

Scott's father and his grandfather had been exponents of High Victorian Gothic ; Scott, when still a young man, saw the possibility of designing in Gothic without the profusion of detail that marked their work.

Because of Scott's age and inexperience, the cathedral committee appointed Bodley as joint architect to work in tandem with him.

At the time of its opening, The Observer, though expressing some reservations about details of Scott's work, called it " one of the finest sights in London ".

Meanwhile his life work, the great Lexicon ( based on the German work of Franz Passow ), which he and Robert Scott began as early as 1834, had made good progress, and the first edition of Liddell and Scott's Lexicon appeared in 1843.

Budd Boetticher, the director most often linked with Scott's work, had this to say about the rumors: " Bullshit.

Scott's work as research supervisor has been an important source of his intellectual influence.

Scott's work of this period led to the bestowal of:

Hallam's earliest literary work was undertaken in connection with the Whig periodical, the Edinburgh Review, where his review of Walter Scott's Dryden attracted attention.

As The Beautiful and Damned neared publication, Burton Rascoe, the freshly appointed literary editor of the New York Tribune, approached Zelda for an opportunity to entice readers with a cheeky review of Scott's latest work.

In her review, she made joking reference to the use of her diaries in Scott's work, but the lifted material became a genuine source of resentment:

Zelda believed, her biographer Milford said, that Scott's work contained " an American temperament grounded in belief in oneself and ' will-to-survive ' that Scott's contemporaries had relinquished.

There is some controversy as to whether the memorial in Manchester was influenced by the publication of Scott's design, or whether Scott was himself inspired by Worthington's design, or whether both architects decided on their canopy designs independently.

Stylistic elements taken from German Expressionism are common today in films that do not need reference to real places such as science fiction films ( especially Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner and the many films influenced by it, was in itself influenced by Metropolis ).

Like James Fenimore Cooper, Simms was strongly influenced by Walter Scott, and his works bore the imprint of Scott's heroic romanticism.

He was not a great natural force ; his early plays and poems are influenced by Leandro Moratín or by Juan Meléndez Valdés ; his Espíritu del siglo ( 1835 ) is a summary of all the commonplaces concerning the philosophy of history ; his Doña Isabel de Solís ( 1837 – 1846 ) is an imitation of Walter Scott's historical novels.

Thus by the late 1970s, in Jones's words, " Scott's complex personality had been revealed and his methods questioned ".

In the late 1940s and early 1950s Scott's films were made mainly for Columbia or Warner Bros. His salary for the latter studio was US $ 100, 000 per picture ( roughly US $ 2. 5 million adjusted for inflation in 2006 ).

Excerpts from his Symphony # 2 were used to accompany several exterior sequences and the end credits in the released versions of Ridley Scott's 1979 horror movie Alien without his permission, but Hanson decided not to fight it in court — they replaced certain sections of the late Jerry Goldsmith's original score at the behest of 20th Century Fox.

Mackinnon would remain a thorn in Scott's side – as late as 1919 fiercely denouncing Scott's compromise position of allowing up to 1 hour a day of French language instruction in public schools.

Scott's Grotto is a series of interconnected chambers, extending some 67 ft into the chalk hillside on the outskirts of Ware, Hertfordshire ; built during the late 18th century, the chambers and tunnels are lined with shells, flints and pieces of coloured glass.

M was English musician Robin Scott's brief but very successful new wave / synthpop project in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Although playing music together since childhood, the partnership between brothers Scott and Seth Avett truly began in the late 1990s with the merger of Seth's high school rock band Margo and Scott's college group Nemo.

The beginning of Scott's heel turn began in late 1997 / early 1998 when he, now with increased muscle mass, having cut his signature mullet, and sporting a goatee, started a feud with Buff Bagwell over who had the better physique, as well as developing a short fuse with his temper.

This band successfully played a season at Ronnie Scott's and helped to pave the way for the British free jazz movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, along with the Mike Taylor trio.

Film credits as director as well as occasional writer and actor during the 1990s included the horror spoof Pterodactyl Woman From Beverly Hills ( 1994 ) with Beverly D ' Angelo, Barry Humphries ( in three roles ), Moon Unit Zappa and Philippe's children Georges and Madeleine ; Art Deco Detective ( 1994 ); Precious Find ( 1996 ) a sci-fi version of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, which reunited two actors from Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, Rutger Hauer and the late Brion James.

In the late 1970s a revival of the horror movie genre was based on the success of Stephen King and Brian De Palma's Carrie ; John Carpenter's the Thing ; and Dan O ' Bannon and Ridley Scott's Alien.

During his next period, inspired by Scott's Waverley novels, Ingemann produced his series of historical romances, by virtue of which he disputes with H. C. Andersen the title of the children's writer of Denmark.

In his autobiography Pisemsky wrote: " Nobody had ever forced me to learn, and I wasn't an avid learner, but I read a lot and that was my passion: by 14 I consumed, in translation, of course, most of Walter Scott's novels, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, Faublas, Le Diable boiteux, The Serapion Brethren, a Persian novel called Haggi Baba ... As for children's books, I couldn't stand them and, as far as I remember now, considered them very silly ".

In contrast, the novels of Scott's contemporary Jane Austen, once appreciated only by the discerning few ( including, as it happened, Sir Walter Scott himself ) rose steadily in critical esteem, though Austen, as a female writer, was still faulted for her narrow (" feminine ") choice of subject matter, which, unlike Scott, avoided the grand historical themes traditionally viewed as masculine.

Scott's original ambition was to be a writer like his favorite author, F. Scott Fitzgerald ; while attending Redford High School in Detroit, he wrote many short stories, none of which was ever published.

Zelda had a deep desire to develop a talent that was entirely her own, perhaps a reaction to Scott's fame and success as a writer.

The failure of Save Me the Waltz, and Scott's scathing criticism of her having written it — he called her " plagiaristic " and a " third-rate writer "— crushed her spirits.

Scott's review ( 23 November 2003 ) was more positive, characterizing Wolff as a " modest and resolutely un-self-aggrandizing " writer and " no mean caricaturist.