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The Makars

Jackie Tasioulas

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An anthology of the poetry of the Makars

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.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
864
Publisher:
Canongate Books
ISBN:
9780862418205
Published Date:
15/10/1999
Dimensions:
180mm x 130mm x 20mm
Weight:
1000g
Category:
Poetry anthologies (various poets)

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Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780862418205

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