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Writing Scotland - A journey through Scotland's Literature

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William Dunbar
1460 - 1513
Court of James IV
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Primary – Best known

The Lament for the Makaris

The Thrissel and the Rose

The Tretis of the Tau Mariit Wemen and the Wedo

The Wowying

The Dance of the Sevin Deadly Synnis

The Goldyn Targe

The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy

Primary - Collected

The Poems of William Dunbar, ed. James Kinsley, Oxford, 1979.

William Dunbar: Selected Poems, ed. Priscilla Bawcutt, London, 1996.

Ian S. Ross, William Dunbar, Leiden, 1981

Priscilla Bawcutt, Dunbar the Makar, Oxford, 1992

R D S Jack and P A T Rozendaal, eds., The Mercat Anthology of Early Scottish Literature 1375-1707, Mercat, 1997. PR8640.M4 [in addition to generous representation of Henryson and Dunbar, this well-annotated anthology also contains the whole of The Kingis Quair, Montgomerie’s The Cherrie and the Slae, and James VI/I’s Reulis and Cautelis]

Secondary

The Poems of William Dunbar Edited by Priscilla Bawcutt (in 2 volumes) Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Glasgow, May 1999

J A Tasioulas, ed., The Makars: the poems of Henryson, Dunbar, and Douglas, Canongate 1999. PR8656.T28

Scotland's Languages
Robert Henryson
William Dunbar
Allan Ramsay
Robert Fergusson
Robert Burns
Edwin Muir
Hugh MacDiarmid
William Soutar
Robert Garioch
Sorley Maclean
Hamish Henderson
Iain Crichton Smith
Tom Leonard
Liz Lochhead
James Kelman
Irvine Welsh