
This collection of medieval poems is full of the same virility, elegiac power, eroticism, and satire that colored the life of celebrated Scottish poet William Dunbar. An introduction and extensive notes on his life and works, including his career as a priest and his royal employment,...




Hugh MacDiarmid hailed William Dunbar (1461?-1520?) as 'in many ways the most modern, as he is the most varied, of Scottish poets'. His verve, wit, metrical skill, malice and elegiac power made him one of the great poets of the fifteenth century, and a defining Scottish poet...