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A list of Scottish poets in English, Scottish Gaelic, Lowland Scots, Latin, French, Old Welsh and other languages. This lists includes people living in what is now Scotland before it became so. This lists includes people living in what is now Scotland before it became so.
Wilson's first published poems, in 1790, included an epistle to Picken. Both Picken and Wilson travelled to a meeting at the Edinburgh Pantheon on 14 April 1791, where they competed in a disputation on Scottish poetry. Picken argued that Allan Ramsay had done the most honour to Scottish poetry while Wilson argued for Robert Fergusson. Neither ...
William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813–65), eventually appointed Professor of belles lettres at the University of Edinburgh, is best known for The lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and made use of the ballad form in his poems, including Bothwell. Among the most successful Scottish poets was the Glasgow-born Thomas Campbell (1777–1844), whose ...
Burns Cottage in Alloway, South Ayrshire. Burns was born two miles (3 km) south of Ayr, in Alloway, Ayrshire on the west coast of Scotland, the eldest of the seven children of William Burnes (1721–1784), a self-educated tenant farmer from Dunnottar in the Mearns, and Agnes Broun (1732–1820), the daughter of a Kirkoswald tenant farmer.
During the 20th century, William Ross' poetry was a major influence upon Sorley MacLean, who remains one of the most important figures in Scottish Gaelic literature. [30] MacLean considered William Ross' last song, Òran Eile , [ 31 ] "one of the very greatest poems ever made in any language", in the British Isles and comparable to the best of ...
Mary MacDonald (Màiri Dhòmhnallach in Scottish Gaelic) (1789–1872) was a Gaelic poet and hymn writer who lived on the island of Mull, Scotland.Her best known poem is "Leanabh an Àigh", translated as "Child in Manger"; [1] it was set to a traditional Scottish tune, "Bunessan", named after her home village, where there is a memorial for her.
This category lists articles about poets who originated from Scotland or spent a notable part of their careers in Scotland. This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:Scottish male poets and Category:Scottish women poets
Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir, anglicized as Duncan Ban MacIntyre (20 March 1724 – 14 May 1812), [1] was one of the most renowned of Scottish Gaelic poets. He formed an integral part of one of the golden ages of Gaelic poetry in Scotland during the 18th century.