Four Hundred Years of Poetry: Dunbar

A Scottish "Makar"

Dear bookish friend,

In Scotland, especially in the fifteenth-century, there was a flourishing tradition of Middle Scots poetry. Much of the best late Middle English poetry is actually Middle Scots, like the poetry of Robert Henryson (his sequel to Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, The Testament of Cresseid, is a fascinating longer poem), or the poetry of …