An Anthology of 16th and Early 17th Century Scots Poetry

Contents

• Alexander Scott
• The Gude and Godlie Ballatis
• Richard Maitland of Lethingtoun
• Alexander Arbuthnot
• William Stewart
• Anonymous lyrics
• Robert Sempill
• Alexander Montgomerie
• ? Christian Lindsay
• King James VI and I of Scotland and England (1566-1625)
• John Stewart of Baldinneis
• William Fowler
• Alexander Hume
• William Alexander of Menstrie (later Earl of Stirling)
• Mark Alexander Boyd
• Alexander Craig of Rosecraig
• Sir Robert Ayton
• Sir David Murray of Gorthy
• Sir William Mure of Rowallan
• William Drummond of Hawthornden
• Appendix: King James I of Scotland (1394-1437)

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Editors

Texts edited and glossed by members of Scottish Literature in the School of Critical Studies:
R.J. Lyall, 1992, T. Van Heijnsbergen, 1999

Editorial assistants: Atia Chowdhury, Deneka MacDonald, Marielke Nieuwerth (students of the School of Critical Studies).

This electronic edition was originally created by J. G. Anderson in 1999. It was redeveloped and migrated to TEI XML by Brian Aitken in 2024.

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