Works By Individual Poets: Classical, Early & Medieval

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  The Testament Of Cresseid & Seven Fables - Robert Henryson - Paperback
  The greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem is the narrative Testament of Cresseid, set in the aftermath of the Trojan War.
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  Seven Fables & The Testament Of Cresseid - Robert Henryson - Hardback
  The greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem is the narrative Testament of Cresseid, set in the aftermath of the Trojan War.
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  The Poems Of Walter Kennedy - Walter Kennedy - Hardback
  This edition of the surviving poetry of Walter Kennedy offers parallel-text versions of all the textual witnesses for each poem, a full set of textual and explanatory notes, a glossary and appendices. The introduction provides biographical information and sets the text in its cultural and intellectual context.
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  Apollos Of The North: The Selected Poems Of George Buchanan And Arthur Johnston - George Buchanan; Arthur Johnston - Paperback
  Published to coincide with the quincentenary of Buchanan's birth in 2006, this book presents a selection of his work, translated and accompanied by the work of Arthur Johnston, a great admirer and contemporary of Buchanan's, and a fellow Scot.
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  Gilgamesh - Edwin Morgan - Paperback
  Edwin Morgan's new version of the Sumerian epic of 'Gilgamesh' brings this ancient epic into the 21st century, instilling it with wit, poignancy and an admirable command of contemporary Scottish speech.
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  The Poems Of Robert Henryson - Gerald Baird - 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 Ruba'iyat Of Omar Khayyam In Scots - Omar Khayyam - Paperback
  Transformed into Lowland Scots, Rab Wilson's version of the 'Ruba'iyat' changes the backdrop from medieval Persia to modern urban Scotland, where a teeming underclass tell of their regrets, joys and hopes, and realise that essentially nothing has changed since the 'Ruba'iyat' was first written.
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  The Shorter Poems Of Gavin Douglas - Gawin Douglas - Hardback
  This edition of the poetry of Gavin Douglas contains 'Palice of Honour', the major dream-vision poem he composed a decade before his 'Eneados' translation. It also contains editions of two poems associated with Douglas, although unlikely to be his, 'Conscience' and 'King Hart'.
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  Selected Poems - Sir David Lindsay; Janet Hadley Williams - Hardback
  In the late 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, a literate Scots household was likely to own two books - the Bible and the poems of Sir David Lyndsay. This volume aims to introduce the poems to new readers as well as to specialists.
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  The Poems Of William Dunbar - William Dunbar; Priscilla J. Bawcutt - Hardback
  Priscilla Bawcutt's edition of the poems of William Dunbar, the 16th century Scots poet, contains freshly established texts of every poem as well as a full introduction, a listing of textual variants in the early manuscripts, notes, a glossary and a list of sources.