The Makars: The Poems of Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas

by Jackie Tasioulas, Tasiou, Gawin Douglas, William Dunbar

Overview

The poetry of the Makars marked an extraordinary flowering of Scottish culture and the Scots language in the 15th and early 16th centuries. This magnificent 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780862418205
Publisher:	Canongate Books
Publication date:	10/15/1999
Series:	Canongate Classics Series
Edition description:	Main
Pages:	864
Product dimensions:	5.12(w) x 7.09(h) x 0.79(d)