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Book SynopsisA selection of some fifty of Dunbar’s poems, with introduction, notes, glossary, and six pages of “appreciations” ranging from John Pinkerton’s (1786) to C.S. Lewis (1954). The notes to this edition gave a great deal of historical and linguistic information as well as much critical interpretation of individual poems.
Trade ReviewAn excellent selection of some fifty of Dunbar’s poems, with introduction, notes, glossary... An admirable volume that deserves to be widely used. * Review of English Studies *
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Biographical and Textual Note
- Appreciations
- Divine Poems
- 1. Rorate celi desuper
- 2. Amang thir freiris within ane cloister
- 3. Done is a battell on the dragon blak
- 4. Hale sterne superne, hale in eterne
- Celebrations
- 5. Quhen Merche wes with variand windis past ('The Thistle and the Rose')
- 6. Blyth Aberdeane, thow beriall of all tounis
- 7. Renownit, ryall, right reverend and serene
- 8. Lang heff I maed of ladyes quhytt
- Poems of Love
- 9. Sweit rois of vertew and of gentilnes
- 10. Sen that I am a presoneir ('Bewty and the Presoneir')
- 11. Ryght as the stern of day begouth to schyne ('The Goldyn Targe')
- 12. Apon the Midsummer evin, mirriest of nichtis ('The Tretis of the tua mariit Wemen and the Wedo')
- 13. In secreit place this hyndir nycht
- Visions and Nightmares
- 14. This nycht before the dawing cleir ('How Dumbar was desyrd to be ane Freir')
- 15. As yung Awrora with cristall haile ('The fenyeit freir of Tungland')
- 16. Lucina schynnyng in silence of the nicht
- 17. Off Februar the fyiftene nycht ('The Dance of the sevin deidly Synnis')
- 18. Nixt that a turnament wes tryid
- 19. Betuix twell hours and ellevin
- Moralities
- 20. He that hes gold and grit riches
- 21. I seik about this warld unstabille
- 22. My heid did yak yester nicht
- 23. I that in heill wes and gladnes ('Lament for the Makaris')
- 24. In to thir dirk and drubile dayis
- 25. Full oft I mus and hes in thocht
- 26. Quhat is this lyfe bot ane straucht way to deid
- 27. Salviour, suppois my sensualitie
- 28. Now culit is dame Venus brand
- 29. To speik of science, craft, or sapience
- 30. Doverrit with dreme, devysing in my slummer
- 31. Ane murlandis man of uplandis mak
- 32. Quhy will ye marchantis of renoun
- 33. Airlie on As Wodnisday
- Life at Court
- 34. Schir Johine the Ros, ane thing thair is compild ('The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie')
- 35. Sir Jhon Sinclair begowthe to dance ('Of a Dance in the Quenis Chalmer')
- 36. Now lythis off ane gentill knycht
- 37. The wardraipper of Venus boure
- 38. O gracious princes, guid and fair
- 39. Schir, ye have mony servitouris
- 40. Schir, for your grace bayth nicht and day
- 41. Schir, yit remembir as of befoir
- 42. Schir. lett it nevir in toun be tald
- 43. I, Maister Andro Kennedy
- 44. We that ar heir in hevins glory ('Dirige to the King')
- Poems of Uncertain Authorship
- 45. My gudame wes a gay wif, bot scho wes ryght gend ('The Ballad of Kynd Kittok')
- 46. Harry, harry, hobbillschowe
- Notes
- Glossary
