Alexander Scott

Alexander Scott (?1520 − 1582/3) wis a Scots makar.  It is jaloused that he bid maist o his time in Embra or near tae it.  Thirty-sax poems haes his name on thaim, sic as Ane New Yeir Gift to Quene Mary, The Rondel of Love, but his maist weel kent poem is To Luve Unluvit.Daiches, D. (1982), Literature and Gentility in Scotland, The University Press, EdinburghJames Emerson Phillips, Images of a Queen: Mary Stuart in Sixteenth-century Literature (University of California, 1964), p. 22.

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