Poetry & Poets: Classical, Early & Medieval

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  • Cover scan of A Companion To Medieval Scottish Poetry
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    A Companion To Medieval Scottish Poetry - Hardback
    A survey and overview of the extraordinary flowering of Scottish poetry in the middle ages, this work includes introductions to the literary culture of late medieval Scotland and its historical context and separate studies of the writings of James I, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, and others.
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    Divided Gaels: Gaelic Cultural Identities In Scotland And Ireland 1200-1650 - Wilson McLeod - Hardback
    In this study, Wilson McLeod challenges the familiar view that Gaelic Scotland and Gaelic Ireland formed a cultural unit during the late Middle Ages and early modern period. He tests the view of a unified Gaelic 'culture-province' by examining the surviving sources, especially formal bardic poetry.
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    Kingship And Love In Scottish Poetry, 1424-1540 - Joanna Martin - Hardback
    Looking at late medieval Scottish poetic narratives which incorporate study of the amourousness of kings, this study places these poems in the context of Scotland's repeated experience of minority kings and a consequent instability in governance.
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    The Makars: An Anthology - Paperback
    This is the largest anthology ever produced from the great riches of this period and includes all the famous figures as well as a few anonymous works. With a glossary and reference, it is by far the most accessible edition yet published.
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    Ossian: Fragments Of Ancient Poetry - Calum Colvin - Paperback
    Calum Colvin is one of Scotland's most innovative contemporary photographers. With this new project he has explored the strange world of Ossian, a third century Celtic bard. Characteristic of Colvin, he has explored difficult themes while simultaneously creating accessible, exhilerating, and provocative photographs.
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    The Poetry Of William Dunbar - Ronald D. S. Jack - Paperback
    The Scotnotes booklets are a series of study guides to major Scottish writers and literary texts aimed at senior pupils in secondary schools and students in tertiary education. The author of each booklet is an authority on the writer or text as well as having experience in teaching at the relevant levels.
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    The Triumph Tree: Scotland's Earliest Poetry, 550-1350 - Paperback
    The Triumph Tree brings together the poetry of five languages - Latin, Welsh, Gaelic, Anglo Saxon and Norse - in an accessible and scholarly edition. These translations form a spectacular window to Scotland's past.
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    The Wallace - Blind, the Minstrel Henry - Paperback
    Looking back to the days of Bruce and the war of independence, Blind Harry's poem is not an aristocratic tale of chivalry and nobility, but a vivid account of the vagaries of war and the brutal realities of battle, wounding and betrayal, all seen from the point of view of the troops in the field.