But it was in his prose romances, dealing with the Middle Ages, that he found the appropriate form for his inspiration--a form which ensured a popular appeal, impossible in the case of the severer form of the drama.

In the enchanter's sway which Scott exercised over Europe during the greater part of the nineteenth century, the memories of _Goetz_ were not the least potent of his spells.
[Footnote 107: Two of the scenes in _Goetz_ were imitated by Scott in his own work--the Vehmgericht scene in _Anne of Geierstein_ and the description of the siege of Torquilstone by Rebecca to the wounded Ivanhoe.

Scott also borrowed from _Egmont_.].