Title: The Scots literary tradition; an essay in criticism,
Authors: Speirs, John
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Year: 1962
Subjects: Scottish poetry History and criticism.; English poetry Scottish authors History and criticism; Scotland Intellectual life.; Scotland In literature.
Contents: Part One -- 1. Fifteenth-century Scots Poetry -- 2. The King's Quair -- 3. Robert Henryson -- 4. William Dunbar -- 5. Gavin Douglas's Aeneid -- 6. David Lindsay -- 7. Sixteenth-century Scots Poems -- 8. The Scots Seventeenth Century -- Part Two -- 9. Allan Ramsay's Scots Poems -- 10. Robert Fergusson -- 11. Burns -- 12. The Scottish Ballads -- 13. Nineteenth-century Scotland in Allegory -- 14. The Present and C. M. Grieve -- Additional Essays -- 15. The Scots Aeneid of Gavin Douglas (1961) -- 16. Tradition and Robert Fergusson (1952) -- 17. Burns's 'To a Louse' and 'Holy Willie's Prayer' (1956) -- 18. Burns's Epistles in Relation to 18th Century English Verse (1958) -- 19. Translation into Scots (1948).