The Makars: The Poems of Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas

by Gavin Douglas, William Dunbar, Robert Henryson

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0862418208
• ISBN13: 9780862418205
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Length: 864 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.0" x 7.7"