The Makars
Subtitle: the poems of Henryson, Dunbar, and Douglas
By: edited, introduced, and annotated by J.A. Tasioulas.
Contributors: Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?; Dunbar, William, 1460?-1520?; Douglas, Gawin, 1474?-1522.; Tasioulas, J. A.
Series: Canongate classics ;; 88
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 843
Subjects: Scottish poetry -- To 1700; Scotland -- Poetry
Genres: Poetry.
Description: "The poetry of the Makars marked an extraordinary flowering of Scottish culture and the Scots language in the 15th and early 16th centuries. This anthology, introduced, edited and annotated by J. A. Tasioulas, makes available for the modern reader the complete poems of both Henryson and Dunbar, as well as Gavin Douglas's The Palis of Honoure. Old Scots words are glossed and medieval and classical references are explained to make this the most approachable collection of major poems in a period which forged a nation's cultural and political sense of itself, from the moral subtlety of Henryson, to the wild flytings of Dunbar, to the democratic humanism of Gavin Douglas."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [842]-843).