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Gavin Douglas
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Palice of Honour
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Shorter Poems
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Product details
- ISBN 9781897976197
- Weight: 730g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 2003
- Publisher: Scottish Text Society
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Revised edition of Gavin Douglas’ shorter poems
Gavin Douglas was a prominent Scottish churchman who eventually rose to become Bishop of Dunkeld, and is well known for Eneados, his brilliant Middle Scots translation of the Aeneid. First published in 1967, this edition has been revised and updated by its editor, and includes substantial additional notes and bibliography.
PRISCILLA BAWCUTT, honorary professor at the University of Liverpool, was one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars of Older Scots. She edited The Poems of William Dunbar for the Association of Scottlish Literary Studies (1997/8), and The Shorter Poems of Gavin Douglas for the Scottish Text Society (revised 2003); she has written very widely and deeply on all aspects of Older Scots literature, includingher foundational study, Gavin Douglas (1976). IAN C. CUNNINGHAM, former Keeper of Manuscripts at the National Library of Scotland, has published extensively on Latin and Older Scots manuscripts, and edited and translated Theophrastus
