The Shorter Poems of Gavin Douglas

2. Revised Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-1-897976-19-7
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 456 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 212 mm, Gewicht: 730 g

Reihe: Scottish Text Society Fifth Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bawcutt, Priscilla

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Bawcutt, Priscilla
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