Langage cleir illumynate : : Scottish poetry from Barbour to Drummond, 1375-1630 / edited by Nicola Royan.

• Superior document: Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; v. 10
• Author: International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature University of St. Andrews)
• TeilnehmendeR: Royan, Nicola,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Rodopi,, 2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (222 pages).
• Notes: "The final volume of proceedings from the 9th International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Language and Literature, held at the University of St. Andrews in 1999"--Acknowledgments.

Drawn from papers given at an international conference held in 1999, this collection of essays offers new perspectives on Scots poetry of the late Middle Ages and early modern period. It includes essays on major poets, such as John Barbour, Robert Henryson, David Lyndsay and William Drummond; it also considers less famous writers such as John Bellenden and John Stewart of Baldynneis. Across these tightly focused essays, two themes predominate: the first is the imagined relationship between writer and reader, revealing a consistent concern with interpretation in Older Scots writing; the second is the place of literary influence, whether that too is Scots or from beyond Scotland’s borders. This volume will be of interest to all academics and students with an interest in Older Scots writing; it will also have some appeal for scholars working in late medieval and early modern literature more generally.-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Nicola Royan -- From Heraldry to History: The Death of Giles D'Argentan / Andrew Taylor -- The Translations of Fortune: James I's Kingis Quair and the Rereading of Lancastrian Poetry / Joanna Martin -- The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy in Context / Nicole Meier -- "That he in brutal beist is transformate": The Translation of Man's Deeds to Those of Beasts / Rosemary Greentree -- Gavin Douglas and John Bellenden: Poetic Relations and Political Affiliations / Thomas Rutledge -- Lyndsay's Dramatic Use of Prosody in Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis / J. Derrick McClure -- "With Mirth My Corps 3e Sal Convoy": Squyer Meldrum and the Work of Mourning / R. James Goldstein -- The Scottish Sonnet, James VI, and John Stewart of Baldynneis / Katherine McClune -- Flowres of Sion: The Spiritual and Meditative Journey of William Drummond / David Atkinson -- "Quintessencing in the Finest Substance": the Sonnets of William Drummond / Michael Spiller -- Afterword / Sally Mapstone.- Index.