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.

An anthology of the poetry of the Makars

Book Information
ISBN 9780862418205
Author Jackie Tasioulas
Format Paperback
Page Count 864
Imprint Canongate Books
Publisher Canongate Books
Weight(grams) 1000g
Dimensions(mm) 180mm * 130mm * 20mm