[26] However, in the 1580s and 1590s he strongly promoted the literature of the country of his birth in Scots.

1550–98).

[60] Other writers that emerged in this period, and are often treated as part of the movement, include the poets Edwin Muir (1887–1959) and William Soutar (1898–1943), who pursued an exploration of identity, rejecting nostalgia and parochialism and engaging with social and political issues.  Scottish Forenames> Fhathast, chan e co-fharpais a th’ ann idir, ach roghainn phearsanta. [44] Ramsay was part of a community of poets working in Scots and English.

[46] Tom Leonard (b.

The ballad became a recognised literary form by aristocratic authors including Robert Sempill, Lady Elizabeth Wardlaw and Lady Grizel Baillie. [11] Works that have survived include that of the prolific poet Gille Brighde Albanach (fl. (This is too ordinary to be nostalgia.) [60] The leading figure in the movement was Hugh MacDiarmid (the pseudonym of Christopher Murray Grieve, 1892–1978). Nevertheless poets from this period included Richard Maitland of Lethington (1496–1586), who produced meditative and satirical verses in the style of Dunbar; John Rolland (fl.

[22] George Buchanan (1506–82) had a major influence as a Latin poet, founding a tradition of neo-Latin poetry that would continue in to the seventeenth century.

 Feedback/Contact> Accommodation> [23] David Lyndsay (c. 1486–1555), diplomat and the head of the Lyon Court, was a prolific poet. What survives of their work was only recorded from the sixteenth century. It is in no sense a competition but a personal choice. [5] The most important piece of Scottish hagiography after Adomnán's Vita Columbae, is the verse Life of St. Ninian, written in Latin in Whithorn, perhaps as early as the eighth century.  Religion>

 Scottish Banknotes> [49] Burns (1759–96) was highly influenced by the Ossian cycle.  Flowers of Scotland> In Latin early works include a "Prayer for Protection" attributed to St Mugint, and Altus Prosator ("The High Creator") attributed to St Columba. 597). 1530–75), who wrote allegorical satires in the tradition of Douglas and courtier and minister Alexander Hume (c. 1556–1609), whose corpus of work includes nature poetry and epistolary verse.

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[58], Among the most influential poets of the later nineteenth century that rejected the limitations of Kailyard School were James Thomson (1834–82), whose most famous poem "City of Dreadful Night" broke many of the conventions of nineteenth-century poetry and John Davidson (1857–1909), whose work, including "The Runable Stag" and "Thirty Bob a Week" were much anthologised, would have a major impact on modernist poets including Hugh MacDiarmid, Wallace Stevens and T. S.

In contrast to the Classical tradition, which used syllabic metre, vernacular poets tended to use stressed metre. [18] The work was extremely popular among the Scots-speaking aristocracy and Barbour is referred to as the father of Scots poetry, holding a similar place to his contemporary Chaucer in England. Similarly, the Battle of Gwen Ystrad is attributed to Taliesin, traditionally thought to be a bard at the court of Rheged in roughly the same period.

The most important figure in Scottish Romanticism, Walter Scott, began his literary career as a poet and also collected and published Scottish ballads. However, they shared with the Classic poets a set of complex metaphors and a common role, as the verse was still often panegyric.  Great Places to Eat> [4] In Latin early works include a "Prayer for Protection" attributed to St Mugint, thought to be from the mid-sixth century and Altus Prosator ("The High Creator") attributed to St Columba (c.  Castles To Stay In>

 Politics> 1944), works in the Glaswegian dialect, pioneering the working class voice in Scottish poetry, although what has been described as his finest work "A priest came on at Merkland Street" is in English.