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Statue of William Dunbar, Scottish National Portrait Gallery Title page of Dunbar's The Goldyn Targe in the Chepman and Myllar Prints of 1508. ( National Library of Scotland ). William Dunbar (1459 or 1460 – by 1530) was a Scottish makar , or court poet, active in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
John Clark Milne (1897–1962) was a Scottish poet who wrote in the Doric dialect of the Scots language. He was also a teacher and educationalist. [ 1 ] Some of his poetry was written for children.
The Lord of the Isles is a narrative poem by Walter Scott in six cantos with substantial notes. Set in 1307 and 1314 Scotland it covers the story of Robert the Bruce from his return from exile in Ireland to the successful culmination of his struggle to secure Scottish independence from English control at the Battle of Bannockburn.
His poem (and song) "Auld Lang Syne" is often sung at Hogmanay (the last day of the year), and "Scots Wha Hae" served for a long time as an unofficial national anthem of the country. [50] Burns's poetry drew upon a substantial familiarity with and knowledge of Classical, Biblical, and English literature, as well as the Scottish Makar tradition ...
The Scottish ballads were not early current in Orkney, a Scandinavian country; so it is very unlikely that the poem could have originated the name. The people know nothing beyond the traditional appellation of the spot, and they have no legend to tell. Spens is a Scottish, not a Scandinavian name.
An 18thC edition of The Brus in the National Museum of Scotland The sentiment underlying the poem. The Brus, Barbour's major surviving work, is a long narrative poem written while he was a member of the king's household in the 1370s. Its subject is the ultimate success of the prosecution of the First War of Scottish Independence.
Ellen's Isle (Gaelic: Eilean Molach, 'shaggy island') on Loch Katrine was a stronghold of Clan McGregor.[2] [3] [4]The first hint of The Lady of the Lake occurs in a letter from Scott to Lady Abercorn dated 9 June 1806, where he says he has 'a grand work in contemplation … a Highland romance of Love Magic and War founded upon the manners of our mountaineers'. [5]
Allan Ramsay as depicted on the Scott Monument. Allan Ramsay was born at Leadhills, Lanarkshire, to Robert Ramsay (1663-1687), Manager of Lord Hopetoun's lead mines at Leadhills, and his wife, Alice Bower, whose father, Alan Bower, was a native of Derbyshire who had come to Leadhills as an instructor to the miners.