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Early Scottish Literature

Introductory reading

The areas of Medieval and Renaissance Scottish literature still lack accessible and comprehensive book-length introductions for the general reader, while remaining relatively marginalised within traditional histories of Scottish literature. Those Literary histories listed in the opening to this section contain general discussion of the period; see particularly W.R. Aitken, Buchan, Glen, Kinsley, Lindsay, Millar and Watson. The first volume, edited by R.D.S. Jack, of The History of Scottish Literature (4 vols, General Editor Cairns Craig, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988), is the standard history, particularly recommended for the range and depth of its essays which cover the early medieval to late seventeenth-century period; there are also excellent chapters on Scottish Latin literature and classical Gaelic. Other collections of essays are those which stem from the International Conferences on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature from Aitken et.al. (eds.) (1977), Blanchot and Graf eds. (1979), Lyall and Riddy (eds.) (1981), Strauss and Drescher (eds.) (1986), McClure and Spiller (eds.) (1989) to the collection edited by Ross Roy and published as volume 26 of Studies in Scottish Literature (1991); the 1993, 1996 and 1999 Proceedings are forthcoming. Henryson and Dunbar are individually well-served (there are Scotnotes by Gerald Baird and R.D.S. Jack on each respectively). The Mercat Anthology of Early Scottish Literature edited by R.D.S. Jack and P.A.T. Rozendaal (Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 1997, 2000) is recommended as the most recent, comprehensive and critically helpful edition for most of the texts discussed in this section; extensive reference is made to it in Chapter 4, 'Renaissance Poetry'. See also the excellent edition entitled The Makars: the Poems of Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas edited by J.A. Tasioulas (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1999) and Douglas Gray's Henryson and Dunbar (London: Penguin, 1997). Priscilla Bawcutt and Felicity Riddy's anthology, Longer Scottish Poems vol. 1, 1375-1650 (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1987) is a valuable anthology, though out of print. Thomas Owen Clancy's recent anthology, The Triumph Tree: Scotland's Earliest Poetry AD 550-1250 (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1998), has redrawn the literary, cultural and linguistic map of Scotland 'pre-Barbour': this precious collection of Gaelic, Latin, Norse, and Old English texts, which contains translations, will enrich any understanding of the identity of later Medieval and Renaissance literatures, and complement other recent collections such as Iona: The Earliest Poetry of a Celtic Monastery edited by Thomas Owen Clancy and Gilbert Markus (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995), the medieval selection in The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse edited by Robert Crawford and Mick Imlah (London: Allen Lane, 2000), and Scottish Religious Poetry from the sixth century to the present: an anthology edited by Meg Bateman, Robert Crawford and James McGonigal (Edinburgh: Saint Andrew Press, 2000). R.D.S. Jack's Scottish Prose (London: Calder & Boyars, 1971), while regrettably out of print, provides a useful edited selection of prose works, critical, religious, and historiographical in nature, from the early modern period.

An outstanding account of cultural and intellectual relationships in Renaissance Scotland can be found in John Durkan's article, 'The Cultural Background in Sixteenth Century Scotland', Essays on the Scottish Reformation 1513-1625, ed. David McRoberts, (Glasgow: J.S. Burns, 1962), pp. 274-331. European literary connections have been amply traced by R.D.S. Jack in The Italian Influence on Scottish Literature (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1972) and Scottish Literature's Debt to Italy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1986), and in Janet M. Smith's much earlier study, The French Background of Middle Scots Literature (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1934). Excellent surveys of other arts in Medieval and Renaissance Scotland are offered by Duncan Macmillan's Scottish Art 1460-1990 (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1990), [chapters II and III], John Purser's Scotland's Music (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1992), [chapter X] and D. James Ross's Musick Fyne. Robert Carver and the Art of Music in Sixteenth Century Scotland (Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 1993).

For help with issues of language see Aitken, A.J. and McArthur, Tom, Languages of Scotland (Edinburgh: Chambers, 1979); John Corbett's Language and Scottish Literature, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997); The Edinburgh History of the Scots Language edited by Charles Jones (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997); Billy Kay's Scots: The Mither Tongue (Edinburgh, Mainstream, 1986); and David Murison's The Guid Scots Tongue (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1977). The standard dictionary of Older and Middle Scots, almost near completion, is the multivolume Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST). Mairi Robinson's The Concise Scots Dictonary (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1985) is an excellent compact dictionary.
 

For specifically bibliographical help, the following are particularly useful: W.R. Aitken's Scottish Literature in English and Scots. A Guide to Information Sources (Detroit: Gale, 1982) ; William Geddie's A Bibliography of Middle Scots Poets (Edinburgh and London: Scottish Text Society, 1912); Duncan Glen's The Poetry of the Scots. An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide to Poetry in Gaelic, Scots, Latin and English (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991); Walter Scheps and Anna J. Looney's Middle Scots Poets. A Reference Guide to James I of Scotland, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas (Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1986). See also The Annual Bibliography of Scottish Literature, issued annually as a supplement to The Bibliotheck (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Library) from 1969 onwards, and The Year's Work in Scottish Literary Studies (1969-1973), after 1973 called The Year's Work in Scottish Literary and Linguistic Studies published annually as supplement to Scottish Literary News and then as supplement to its successor, the Scottish Literary Journal (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies).

For ease of reference, the recommended editions for writers and texts in this section are the most recently published, currently in print, or most readily available in libraries. Where such editions do not exist, reference is made to the earliest standard edition. As explained in the Introduction to these bibliographical sections, the reading suggestions offered here cannot be wholly comprehensive; for example, there is no scope to refer to general works on the Medieval and Renaissance periods in their wider European contexts, or to include citation of doctoral theses. Instead, the aim is to provide the reader with certain useful primary tools of reference.

General Historical and Cultural Background

Allan, David, Philosophy and politics in later Stuart Scotland: neo-Stoicism, culture and ideology in an age of crisis, 1540-1690 (East Linton: Tuckwell, 2000) Virtue, learning and the Scottish Enlightenment: ideas of scholarship in early modern history (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993).

Barrow, G.W.S., Kingship and Unity: Scotland 1000-1306 (London: Edward Arnold, 1981). Broun, Dauvit, R.J. Finlay and Michael Lynch (eds.), Image and identity: the making and re -making of Scotland through the ages (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1998).

Cowan, Ian B. and Shaw, Duncan (eds.), The Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland: Essays in Honour of Gordon Donaldson (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1983).

Crawford, Barbara E. (ed.), Church, chronicle and learning in Medieval and early Renaissance Scotland: essays presented to Donald Watt on the occasion of the completion of the publication of Bower's Scotchronicon (Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 1999).

Donaldson, Gordon, Scotland: James V to James VII (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1965). All the Queen's men: Power and politics in Mary Stewart's Scotland (London: Batsford Academic and Educational Ltd., 1983).

Duncan, A.A.M., Scotland: The Making of the Kingdom (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1975).

Dwyer, J., Mason, R.A. and Murdoch A. (eds.), New perspectives on the politics and culture of early modern Scotland (Edinburgh: Donald, 1982).

Ewan, Elizabeth, 'A Realm of One's Own? Women in the History of Medieval and Early Modern Scotland', Gendering History: Scottish and international approaches, eds. T. Brotherstone and D. Symonds (Glasgow: Cruithne Press, 1999), pp. 19-36.

Ewan, E. and Meikle M.M. (eds.), Women in Scotland c1100-c1750 (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1999).

Goodare, J. and Lynch M. (eds.), The Reign of James VI (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2000).

Grant, Alexander, Independence and Nationhood: Scotland 1306-1469 (London: Arnold, 1992).

Kidd, Colin, British identities before nationalism: ethnicity and nationhood in the Atlantic world, 1600-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Kinghorn, A.M., The Chorus of History: Literary-Historical Relations in Renaissance Britain, 1485-1558 (London: Blanford Press, 1971).

Lyall, R.J., 'The Court as a Cultural Centre', History Today 34 (London, 1984), pp. 27-33. Lynch, Michael, Scotland. A New History (Edinburgh: Century, 1991; revised edition, 1992). - (ed.), Mary Stewart: Queen of Three Kingdoms (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988).

Mason, R.A., Scots and Britons: Scottish political thought and the union of 1603 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).

Mitchison, Rosalind, Lordship to Patronage: Scotland 1603-1745 (London: Edward Arnold, 1983).

Nicholson, Ranald, Scotland: The Later Middle Ages (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1974).

Scott, Paul H. (ed.), Scotland: A Concise Cultural History (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1993). Sutherland, Elizabeth, Five Euphemias: Women in Medieval Scotland 1200-1420 (London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1999).

Wormald, Jenny, Court, Kirk and Community: Scotland 1470-1625 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1981).
 

Medieval Literature

Aitken, A.J., McDiarmid, M.P. and Thomson, D.S., Bards and Makars (Glasgow: University of Glasgow Press, 1977).

Bawcutt, Priscilla, 'The Art of Flyting', SLJ 10(2) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1983), pp. 5-24.

Blanchot, J.J. and Graf, Claude (eds.), Actes du 2e Colloque de Langue et de Littérature Écossaises (Moyen Âge de Renaissance). (Strasbourg: Université de Strasbourg, 1979).

Carruthers, Gerard and Dunnigan, Sarah M., ''A reconfused chaos now': Scottish Poetry and Nation from the Medieval Period to the Eighteenth Century', Edinburgh Review 100 (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1999), pp. 81-94.

Fradenburg, Louise, City, Marriage, Tournament (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991).

Gray, Douglas, 'Some Chaucerian Themes in Scottish Writers', Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer, eds. Ruth Morse and Barry Windeatt, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 81-90.

Jack, R.D.S., The History of Scottish Literature Vol.1, Origins to 1660 (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1989). The Italian Influence on Scottish Literature (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1972).

Kinsley, James (ed.), Scottish Poetry: A Critical Survey (London: Cassell, 1955).

Kratzmann, Gregory (ed.), Anglo-Scottish Literary Relations 1430-1550 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980).

Kinghorn, A.M. (ed.), The Middle Scots Poets (London: Edward Arnold, 1970).

Lyall, R.J. and Riddy, Felicity (eds.), Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Scottish Language and Literature (Stirling and Glasgow: University of Glasgow, 1981).

Mackenzie, Agnes Mure, An Historical Survey of Scottish Literature to 1714 (London: Maclehose, 1933).

Millar, John Hepburn, A Literary History of Scotland (London, 1903). 'The Literature of Lowland Scotland, 1350-1700', Scotland: A Concise Cultural History, ed. Paul H. Scott, (Edinburgh and London: Mainstream, 1993), pp. 77-98.

McClure, J. Derrick and Spiller, Michael, R.G. (eds.), Brycht Lanternis: Essays on the Language and Literature of Medieval Scotland (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1989).

McKenna, Stephen R. (ed.), Selected Essays on Scottish Language and Literature: A Festschrift in Honour of Allan H. MacLaine (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992).

MacQueen, John and Winifred (eds.), A Choice of Scottish Verse, 1470-1570 (London: Faber & Faber, 1971).

Mill, Anna J., Mediaeval Plays in Scotland (Edinburgh: St Andrews University Publications, 1927).

Ross, John M., Scottish History and Literature to the Period of the Reformation (Glasgow: J.Maclehose, 1884).

Roy, Ross, G. (ed.), SSL 26: The Language and Literature of Early Scotland (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1991).

Scheps, Walter and Looney, Anna J., Middle Scots Poets: A Reference Guide to James I of Scotland, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gavin Douglas (Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1986).

Scott, Tom (ed.), Late Medieval Scots Poetry (London: Heinemann, 1967).

Shire, Helena Mennie, Song, Dance, and Poetry at the Court of Scotland Under King James VI (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969).

Smith, Janet M., The French Background of Middle Scots Literature (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1934).

Strauss, Dietrich and Drescher, Horst W. (eds.), Scottish Language and Literature, Medieval and Renaissance: Fourth International Conference (Frankfurt am Main P.Lang, 1986).

Renaissance Literature

Dunnigan, Sarah M., 'Scottish Women Writers c1560-c1650', A History of Scottish Women's Writing, eds. Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997), pp. 15-43.

Eyre-Todd, G. (ed.), Scottish Poetry of the Seventeenth Century (London and Edinburgh,n.d.).

Houwen, L.A.J.R., MacDonald, A.A. and Mapstone S.L. (eds.), A palace in the wild: essays on vernacular culture and humanism in late-Medieval and Renaissance Scotland (Leuven: Peeters, 2000).

Hughes, Joan and Ramson, W.S., Poetry of the Stewart Court (Canberra, London: Australian National University Press, 1982).

Jack, R.D.S., The Italian Influence on Scottish Literature (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1972).

'Petrarch in English and Scottish Renaissance Literature', Modern Language Review 71 (Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association, 1976), pp 801-11.'Scottish Literature: The English and European Dimensions', Renaissance Culture in Context: Theory and Practice, eds. Jean R. Brink and William F. Gentrup, (Aldershot: Scolar, 1993), pp. 9-17.

Kratzman, Gregory, 'Sixteenth Century Secular Poetry', History of Scottish Literature Vol I(Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988), pp. 105-23.

Lyall, R.J., 'Politics and Poetry in Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Scotland', SLJ 3 (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1976), pp. 5-29.

MacDonald, Alasdair, A., 'Poetry, Politics, and Reformation Censorship in Sixteenth Century Scotland', English Studies 64(5) (1983), pp. 410-21.

MacDonald, A.A., Lynch, M. and Cowan, Ian B. (eds.), The Renaissance in Scotland: Studies in Literature, Religion, History and Culture (Leiden: Brill, 1994).

MacQueen, John (ed.), Ballatis of Luve: The Scottish Courtly Love Lyric 1400-1570 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1970).

Mapstone, Sally and Wood, Juliette (eds.), The Rose and the Thistle: Essays on the Culture of Late Medieval and Renaissance Scotland (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1998).

Shire, Helena Mennie, Song, Dance and Poetry of the Court of Scotland under King James VI (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969).

Spiller, Michael, 'Poetry after the Union 1603-1660', The History of Scottish Literature Vol. 1, Origins to 1660, ed. R.D.S. Jack, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988), pp. 141-22. The Development of the Sonnet: An Introduction (London: Routledge, 1992).

Waller, Gary, English Poetry of the Sixteenth Century (London: Longman, 1986).

Williams, Janet Hadley, Stewart Style 1513-42: Essays on the Court of James V (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1996).

Literary Roots: Medieval Poetry

Barbour's Bruce

Duncan, A.A.M. (ed.), The Bruce (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1997; 2000).

Criticism

Barrow, G.W.S., 'Robert the Bruce and Scottish Identity', Saltire Society Pamphlet (1984). 'The Idea of Freedom in Late Medieval Scotland', Innes Review 30 (Glasgow, 1979), pp. 16-34.

Ebin, Lois, A., 'John Barbour's Bruce: Poetry, History and Propaganda', SSL 9 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1971-72), pp. 218-42.

Goldstein, R. James, The Matter of Scotland: Historical Narrative in Medieval Scotland (Lincon, London: University of Nebraska Press, 1993).

Jack, R.D.S., '(A!) Fredome is a Noble Thing': Christian Hermeneutics and Barbour's Bruce', Scottish Studies Review 1(1) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2000), pp. 26-38.

Kinghorn, A.M., 'Scottish Historiography in the Fourteenth Century: A New Introduction to Barbour's Bruce', SSL 6 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1968-1969), pp. 131-45.

Kliman, Bernice W., 'The Idea of Chivalry in Barbour's Bruce', Medieval Studies 35 (1973), pp. 477-508. 'Speech as a Mirror of Sapientia and Fortitudo in Barbour's Bruce', Medium Aevum 44 (Oxford, 1975), pp. 151-61.

McKim, Anne M., 'James Douglas and Barbour's Ideal of Knighthood', Forum for Modern Language Studies 17 (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the University of St Andrews, 1981), pp. 167-80.

Schwend, Joachim, 'Religion and Religiosity in The Bruce', Scottish Studies 4 (Frankfurt am Main, 1984), pp. 207-15. 'Nationalism in Scottish Medieval and Renaissance Literature', Scottish Studies 8 (Frankfurt am Main, 1989), pp. 29-42.

Utz, Hans, 'If Freedom Fail... 'Freedom' in John Barbour's 'The Bruce'', English Studies 50 (1969), pp. 151-65.

Watt, Diane, 'Nationalism in Barbour's Bruce', Parergon: Bulletin of the Australia and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 12(1) (1994), pp.89-107.

Wilson, Grace, G., 'Barbour's Bruce and Harry's Wallace: Compliments, Compensations and Conventions', SSL 25 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1990), pp.189-201.

James I: The Kingis Quair

Jack, R.D.S. and Rozendaal, P.A.T. (eds.), 'James I: The Kingis Quair', The Mercat Anthology of Early Scottish Literature 1375-1707 (Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 1997), pp. 17-56 [most easily available edition].

McDiarmid, Matthew (ed.), The Kingis Quair of James Stewart (London: Heinemann, 1973).

Norton-Smith, John (ed.), The Kingis Quair (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1981, 2nd edition).

Skeat, W.W. (ed.), The Kingis Quair (Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, 1911, 2nd edition).
 
 

Criticism

Boffey, Julia, 'Chaucerian Prisoners: the Context of The Kingis Quair', Chaucer and Fifteenth Century Poetry, eds. Julia Boffey and Janet Cowan (London:King's College, 1991), pp. 84-99.

Brown, Ian, 'The Mental Traveller - A Study of the Kingis Quair', SSL 5 (Columbia:University of South Carolina, 1967-8), pp. 245-52.

Caretta, V., 'The Kingis Quair and the Consolation of Philosophy', SSL 16 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1981), pp. 14-28.

Cragie, W.A., 'The Language of the Kingis Quair', Essays and Studies 25 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1939), pp. 22-38.

Ebin, Lois A., 'Boethius, Chaucer and the Kingis Quair', Philological Quarterly 58 (Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1974), pp. 321-41., Illuminator, Makar, Vates, Visions of Poetry in the Fifteenth Century (Lincoln,Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1988), pp. 50-5.

James, Clair F., 'The Kingis Quair: The Plight of the Courtly Lover', New Readings of Late Medieval Love Poems, ed. David Chamberlain (Lanham, MD.: UniversityPress of America, 1993), pp. 95-118.

Jeffery, C.D., 'Anglo-Scots Poetry and The Kingis Quair', Actes du 2e Colloque de Langue et de Litterature Ecossaises (Moyen Age et Renaissance), eds.

J.J.Blanchot and C. Graf, (Strasbourg: Université de Strasbourg, 1979), pp. 207-21.

Kratzmann, Gregory, Anglo-Scottish Literary Relations 1430-1550 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), pp. 33-62.

MacColl, Alan, 'Beginning and Ending the Kingis Quair', Bryght Lanternis (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1989), pp. 118-28.

MacQueen, John, 'Tradition and the Interpretation of the Kingis Quair', Review of English Studies 12 (1961), pp. 117-31.

Markland, M.F., 'The Structure of The Kingis Quair', Research Studies of the State College of Washington 25 (1967), pp. 273-86.

Marks, Diane R., 'Poems from Prison: James I of Scotland and Charles d'Orleans', Fifteenth-Century Studies 15 (Stuttgart: H.-D. Heinz, Akademischer Verlag, 1989), pp. 245-58.

Petrina, Alessandra, The Kingis Quair of James I of Scotland (Padua: Unipress, 1997).

Preston, John, ''Fortunys Exiltree': A Study of The Kingis Quair', Review of English Studies 7 (1956), pp. 339-47.

Quinn, William, 'Memory and the Matrix of Unity in The Kingis Quair', Chaucer Review 15 (1980-81), pp. 332-55.

Scheps, Walter, 'Chaucerian Synthesis: The Art of The Kingis Quair', SSL 8 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1970-71), pp. 143-65.

Straus, Barrie Ruth, 'The Role of the Reader in The Kingis Quair', Actes du 2e Colloque de Langue et de Litterature Ecossaises (Moyen Age et Renaissance), eds. J.J.Blanchot and C. Graf, (Strasbourg: Université de Strasbourg, 1979), pp. 198-206.

von Hendy, A., 'The Free Thrall: A Study of The Kingis Quair', SSL 2(2) (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1964-65), pp. 246-52.

Henryson and Dunbar

Henryson

Bawcutt, Priscilla and Riddy, Felicity (eds.), Selected Poems of Henryson and Dunbar (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, The Scottish Classics Series no.16, 1992).

Jack, R.D.S. and Rozendaal, P.A.T. (eds.), The Mercat Anthology of Early Scottish Literature (Edinburgh: Mercat, 1997), pp. 83-126; 280-2..

Fox, Denton (ed.), The Poems of Robert Henryson (Oxford: Clarendon, 1980).

Gopen, George, The Moral Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian English and Scots (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1987).

Gray, Douglas, Selected poems of Robert Henryson and Willam Dunbar (London: Penguin, 1998).

Tasioulas, J.A. (ed.), The Makars: the poems of Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1999).
 
 

Criticism: monographs

Baird, Gerald, The Poems of Robert Henryson (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Scotnotes, 1996).

Gray, Douglas, Robert Henryson (Leiden: E.J.Brill, 1979).

Greentree, Rosemary, Reader, Teller and Teacher: The Narrator of Robert Henryson's Moral Fables (Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1993).

Kindrick, Robert L., Robert Henryson (Boston: Twayne, 1979). Henryson and the Medieval Arts of Rhetoric (New York: Garland Publishing, 1993).

McDiarmid, Matthew P., Robert Henryson (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1982).

McKenna, Stephen, Henryson's Tragic Vision (Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1994).

MacQueen, John, Robert Henryson: A Study of the Major Narrative Poems (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967).

Newlyn, Evelyn, S., 'Robert Henryson and the Fable Tradition in the Middle Ages', Journal of Popular Culture 14 (Special Medieval Edition) (1980), pp. 108-18.

Powell, Marianne, Fabula Docet: Studies in the Background and Interpretation of Henryson's Morall Fabillis (Odense: Odense University Press, 1983).

Stearns, Marshall W., Robert Henryson (New York: Columbia Press, 1949).

Criticism: general essays

Cruttwell, Patrick, 'Two Scots Poets: Dunbar and Henryson', The Age of Chaucer [Pelican

Guide to English Literature, vol.1], ed. Boris Ford, (London: Cassell, 1961), pp. 175-87.

Fox, Denton, 'The Coherence of Henryson's Work', Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent Essays, ed. Robert F. Yeager, (Hamden. Connn.: Archon, 1984), pp. 275-81.

Hyde, I., 'Poetic Imagery: A Point of Comparison between Henryson and Dunbar', SSL2 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1964-65), pp. 183-97.

Jamieson, I.W.A., 'Henryson's Minor Poems', SSL 9 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1971-1972), pp. 125-47.

Kindrick, Robert L., 'Henryson and the Rhetoricians: The Ars Praedicandi', Scottish Language and Literature, Medieval and Renaissance, eds. Dietrich Strauss and Horst

W. Drescher, (Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1986), pp. 255-70.

Kinghorn, A.M., 'The Minor Poems of Robert Henryson', SSL 3 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1965), pp. 30-40.

Kratzmann, Gregory, Anglo-Scots Literary Relations 1430-1550 (Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, 1980).

MacQueen, John, 'Poetry: James I to Henryson', The History of Scottish Literature vol.1, Origins to 1600 (Medieval and Renaissance), ed. R.D.S. Jack, (Aberdeen:

Aberdeen University Press, 1988), pp. 55-72.

Muir, Edwin, 'Robert Henryson', Essays on Literature and Society (London: Hogarth Press,1965, 2nd edition).

Newlyn, E.S., 'Tradition and Transformation in the Poetry of Robert Henryson', SSL 18 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1983), pp. 33-58.

The Moral Fables

Benson, C. David, '"O Moral Henryson"', Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent Essays, ed.

Robert F. Yeager, (Hamden, Conn.: Archon, 1984).

Bright, Phillipa M., 'Medieval Concepts of the Figure and Henryson's Figurative Technique in the Fables', SSL 25 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1990), pp. 134-153.

Burrow, J.A., 'Henryson: 'The Preiching of the Swallow'', Essays in Criticism 25 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1975), pp. 25-37.

Clark, G., 'Henryson and Aesop: The Fable Transformed', English Literary History 43 (1976), pp. 1-18.Ebin, Lois, 'Henryson's "Fenyeit Fabillis": A Defence of Poetry', Actes du 2e Colloque de Langue et de Litterature Ecossaises (Moyen Age et Renaissance), eds. J.J. Blanchot and Claude Graf, (Strasbourg: Université de Strasbourg, 1979), pp. 222-38.

Fox, Denton, 'Henryson's Fables', English Literary History 29 (1962), pp. 337-56.

Gopen, George D., 'The Essential Seriousness of Robert Henryson's Morall Fables: a Study in Structure', Studies in Philology 82 (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1985), pp. 42-59.

Gray, Douglas, '"Th'ende is every tales strengthe": Henryson's Fables', Proceedings Of the Third International Conference on Scottish Language and Literature, ed. R.J.

Lyall and Felicity Riddy, (Stirling and Glasgow: University of Glasgow, 1981), pp. 225-50.

Greentree, Rosemary, 'The Debate of the Paddock and the Mouse', SSL 26 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1991), pp. 481-9.

Khinoy, Stephen, 'Tale-moral Relationships in Henryson's Moral Fables', SSL 17 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1982), pp. 123-36.

Kratzmann, Gregory, 'Henryson's Fables: The Subtell Dyte of Poetry', SSL 20 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1985), pp. 49-70.

MacDonald, D., 'Narrative Art in Henryson's "Fables"', SSL 3 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1965-1966), pp. 101-13., 'Chaucer's Influence on Henryson's Fables: The Use of Proverbs and Sententiae', Medium Aevum 39 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1970), pp. 21-7.

McKenna, Steven R., 'Tragedy and the Consolation of Myth in Henryson's Fables', SSL 26 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1991), pp. 490-502.

Newlyn, E.S., 'Affective Style in Middle Scots: The Education of the Reader in Three Fables by Robert Henryson', Nottingham Medieval Studies 26 (Nottingham: University of Nottingham, 1982), pp. 47-56.

Pope, Robert, 'Henryson's "The Sheep and the Dog"', Essays in Criticism 30 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1980), pp. 205-14.

Toliver, H.E., 'Robert Henryson: From "Moralitas" to Irony', English Studies 46 (1965), pp. 300-9.

Pope, Robert, 'A Sly Toad, Physiognomy and the Problem of Deceit: Henryson's 'The Paddock and the Mous'', Neophilogus 63 (1979), pp. 461-8.

The Testament of Cresseid

Aronstein, Susan, 'Cresseid Reading Cresseid: Redemption and Translation in Henryson's Testament', SLJ 21 (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1994), pp. 5-22.

Aswell, E.D., 'The Role of Fortune in The Testament of Cresseid', Philological Quarterly 46 (Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1967), pp. 471-87.

Bennett, J.A.W., 'Henryson's Testament: A Flawed Masterpiece', SLJ 1 (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1974), pp. 5-16.

Boitani, Piero (ed.), The European Tradition of Troilus (Oxford: Oxford University Press,1989).

Craik, Thomas W., 'The Substance and Structure of The Testament of Cresseid', Bards and Makars: Scottish Language and Literature, Medieval and Renaissance, eds. A.J. Aitken et. al., (Glasgow: Glasgow University Press, 1977), pp. 22-6.

Craun, Edwin D., 'Blaspheming Her 'Awin Gods': Cresseid's 'Lamentatioun' in Henryson's Testament', Studies in Philology 82 (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1985), pp. 25-41.

Cullen, Mairi Ann, 'Cresseid Excused: A Re-reading of Henryson's Testament of Cresseid' SSL 20 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1985), pp. 137-59.

Duncan, Douglas, 'Henryson's Testament of Cresseid', Essays in Criticism 11 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1961), pp. 128-35.

Godman, Peter, 'Henryson's Masterpiece', Review of English Studies 35 (1984), pp. 291-300.

Hanna, Ralph W., 'Cresseid's Dream and Henryson's Testament', Chaucer and Middle English Studies in Honour of Russell Hope Robbins, ed. B. Rowland, (London, Allen & Unwin, 1974), pp. 288-97.

Harth, Sydney, 'Henryson Reinterpreted', Essays in Criticism 11 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1961), pp. 471-80.

Harty, Kevin J., 'Cresseid and the Narrator: A Reading of Robert Henryson's 'Testament of Cresseid'', Studi Medievali Series 3, 23(2) (1983), pp. 753-65.

Jentoft, C.W., 'Henryson as Authentic Chaucerian: Narrator, Character and Courtly Love in The Testament of Cresseid', SSL 10(2) (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1972-3), pp. 94-102.

McDonald, A.A., '"Fervent Weather": A Difficulty in Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid', Scottish Language and Literature, Medieval and Renaissance, eds. Dietrich

Strauss and Horst W. Drescher, (Frankfurt am Main: P.Lang, 1986), pp. 271-80.

McDonald, C., 'Venus and the Goddess Fortune in the Testament of Cresseid', SLJ 4(2) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1977), pp. 14-24.

McKenna, Steven R., 'Henryson's 'Tragedie' of Cresseid', SLJ 18 (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1990), pp. 26-36.

McNamara, John, 'Divine Justice in Henryson's Testament of Cresseid', SSL 11 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1973-4), pp. 99-107.

Noll, Dolores L., 'The Testament of Cresseid: Are Christian Interpretations Valid?', SSL 9 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1971-2), pp. 16-25.

Parkinson, David J., 'Henryson's Scottish Tragedy', Chaucer Review: A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literary Criticism 25(4) (1991), pp. 355-62.

Patterson, Lee W., 'Christian and Pagan in The Testament of Cresseid', Studies in Philology 52 (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1973), pp. 696-714.

Pittock, Malcolm, 'The Complexity of Henryson's the Testament Of Cresseid', Essays in Criticism 40(3) (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990), pp. 198-221.

Sklute, Larry M., 'Phebus Descending: Rhetoric and Moral Vision in Henryson's Testament of Cresseid', English Literary History 44 (1977), pp. 189-204.

Strauss, J., 'To Speak Once More of Cresseid: Henryson's Testament Reconsidered', SLJ 4 (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1977), pp. 5-13.

Twycross-Martin, Henrietta, 'Moral Pattern in the Testament of Cresseid', Chaucer and Fifteenth Century Poetry, eds. Julia Boffey and Janet Cowan, [King's College London Medieval Studies 5] (London: King's College, 1991), pp. 30-50.

Volkbroke, S., 'Sickness and Death: Crime and Punishment in Henryson's The Testament of Cresseid', Anglia 113(2) (1995), pp. 163-83.
 

Dunbar

Bawcutt, P. (ed.), The Poetry of William Dunbar, 2 vols., (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1999), (ed.), Selected Poems; William Dunbar (Harlow: Longman, 1996), and Riddy, F. (eds.), Selected Poems of Dunbar and Henryson (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, Scottish Classics Series 16, 1992).
 

Criticism

Bawcutt, Priscilla, William Dunbar (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), 'William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas', The History of Scottish Literature vol. 1, Origins to 1600 (Medieval and Renaissance), ed. R.D.S. Jack, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988), pp. 73-89.

Baxter, J.W., William Dunbar: a biographical study (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1952).

Cunningham, J.V., 'Logic and Lyric', Modern Philology 51 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953), pp. 33-41.

Ebin, Lois, Illuminator, Makar, Vates: Visions of Poetry in the Fifteenth Century (Lincoln, Neb. London: University of Nebraska Press, 1988).

Hasler, Anthony J., 'William Dunbar: The Elusive Subject', Bryght Lanternis: Essays on the Language and Literature of Medieval and Renaissance Scotland, eds. J. Derrick

McClure and Michael R.G. Spiller, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1989), pp.194-208.

Jack, R.D.S., The Poetry of William Dunbar (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Scotnotes, 1997), 'Dunbar and Lydgate', SSL 8 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1970-71), pp.215-27.

Morgan, Edwin, 'Dunbar and the Language of Poetry', Essays (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1974), pp. 81-99.

Norman, Joanne S., 'William Dunbar: Grand Rhetoriqueur', Bryght Lanternis: Essays on the Language and Literature of Medieval Scotland, eds. J. Derrick McClure and Michael R.G. Spiller, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1989), pp. 209-20, 'A Postmodern Look at a Medieval Poet: the Case of William Dunbar', SSL 26 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1991), pp. 343-53.

Reiss, Edmund, 'The Ironic Art of William Dunbar', Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent

Essays, ed. Robert F. Yeager, (Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1984), pp. 321-31.

Ross, Ian S., William Dunbar (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1981).

Scott, Tom, Dunbar: A Critical Exposition of the Poems (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1966).

Speirs, John, 'William Dunbar', Scrutiny 7 (1938), pp. 56-68.
 

Dunbar's language

Burness, Edwina, 'Dunbar and the Nature of Bawdy', Bryght Lanternis: Essays on the Language and Literature of Medieval Scotland, eds. J. Derrick McClure and

Michael R.G. Spiller, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1989), pp. 209-20.

Ebin, Lois, 'Dunbar's 'Fresch Anamalit Termis Celicall' and the Art of the Occasional Poet', Chaucer Review 17 (1982), pp. 282-9. (ed.), 'Vernacular Poetics in the Middle Ages', Studies in Medieval Culture 16 (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1984).

Hyde, I., 'Primary Sources and Associations of Dunbar's Aureate Imagery', Modern Language Review 51 (Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association, 1956), pp. 481-92, 'Poetic Imagery: A Point of Comparison between Henryson and Dunbar', SSL 2 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1964-65), pp. 183-97.

Morgan, Edwin, 'Dunbar and the Language of Poetry', Essays in Criticism 11 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1952), pp. 138-57. Also in Essays (Cheadle: Carcanet, 1974), pp. 81-99.
 

Specific poems

Bawcutt, Priscilla, 'Dunbar's Christmas Carol', Scottish Language and Literature, Medieval and Renaissance, eds. D. Strauss and Horst W. Drescher, (Frankfurt am Main: P.Lang, 1986), pp. 381-92.

Drexler, R.D., 'Dunbar's "Lament for the Makaris" and the Dance of Death Tradition', SSL 13 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1975-76), pp. 144-58.

Evans, Deanna D., 'Ambivalent Artifice in Dunbar's The Thrissill and the Rois', SSL 22 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1987), pp. 95-105, 'Bakhtin's Literary Carnivalesque and Dunbar's "Fasternis Evin in Hell"', SSL 26 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1991), pp. 354-65, 'Dunbar's Tretis: The Seven Deadly Sins in Carnivalesque Disguise', Neophilologus 73 (1989), pp. 130-41.

Fradenburg, Louise O., City, Marriage, Tournament: Arts of Rule in Late Medieval Scotland (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991), [on 'The Thrissill and the Rois'].

Gray, Douglas, 'Rough Music: Some Early Invectives and Flytings', Yearbook of English Studies 14 (Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association, 1984), pp. 21-43.

Hay, Bryan S., 'Dunbar's Flyting Abbot: Apocalypse Made to Order', SSL 11 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1973-74), pp. 217-25.

Lyall, R.J., 'William Dunbar's Beast Fable', SLJ 1 (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1974), pp. 17-28.

Macafee, Caroline A., 'A Stylistic Analysis of Dunbar's 'In Winter'', Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Scottish Language and Literature, Medieval and Renaissance, eds. Roderick J. Lyall and Felicity Riddy, (Stirling and Glasgow: University of Glasgow, 1981), pp. 359-69).

McKenna, Steven R., 'Drama and Invective: Traditions in Dunbar's "Fasternis Evin in Hell"', SSL 24 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1989), pp. 129-41.

Robichaud, Paul, '"To Heir Quhat I sould Wryt'": 'The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy' and 'Scots Oral Culture', SLJ 25(2) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1998), pp. 9-16.

Ting, Judith, 'A Reappraisal of Dunbar's "Dregy"', SLJ 41(2) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1987), pp. 19-36.
 

The Goldyn Targe

Ebin, Lois A., 'The Themes of Poetry in Dunbar's The Golden Targe', Chaucer Review 7 (1972), pp. 147-59.

Fox, Denton, 'Dunbar's The Golden Targe', English Literary History 26 (1959), pp. 211-34.

Harrington, David V., 'The 'Wofull Prisonnere' in Dunbar's Goldyn Targe', SLJ 22 (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1987), pp. 173-82.

Lyall, R.J., 'Moral Allegory in Dunbar's Goldyn Targe', SSL 11 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1973-4), pp. 47-65.

Tilley, E. Allen, 'The Meaning of Dunbar's The Golden Targe', SSL 10 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1972-73), pp. 220-31.
 

The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo

Bentsen, Eileen and Sanderlin, S.L., 'The Profits of Marriage in Late Medieval Scotland', SLJ 12(2) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1985), pp. 5-18.

Bitterling, Klaus, 'The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo: Some Comments on Words, Imagery, and Genre', Scottish Language and Literature, Medieval and Renaissance, eds. Dietrich Strauss and Horst W. Drescher, (Frankfurt am Main: P.Lang, 1986), pp. 337-58.

Butness, Edwina, 'Female Language in the Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo', Scottish Language and Literature, Medieval and Renaissance, eds. Dietrich Strauss and Horst W. Drescher, (Frankfurt am Main: P.Lang, 1986), pp. 359-68.

Fries, Maureen, 'Medieval Concepts of the Female and their Satire in the Poetry of William Dunbar', Fifteenth Century Studies 7 (Stuttgart: H.-D. Heinz, Akademischer Verlag, 1983), pp. 55-77.

Kinsley, James, 'The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo', Medium Aevum 23 (Oxford, 1954), pp. 31-6.

McCarthy, Shaun, ''Syne Maryit I a Marchand': Dunbar's Mariit Wemen and their Audience', SSL 18 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1983), pp. 138-56.

Moore, Arthur K., 'The Setting of The Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo', English Studies 32 (1951), pp. 56-62.

Pearcy, R.J., 'The Genre of William Dunbar's Tretis of the Tua Maritt Wemen and the Wedo', Speculum 55 (1980), pp. 58-74.

Roth, Elizabeth, 'Criticism and Taste: Readings of Dunbar's Tretis', SLJ: Supplement 15 (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1981), pp. 57-90.
 
 

Ballads

Ballad Anthologies and Collections

Buchan, David (ed.), A Scottish Ballad Book (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973), (ed.), Scottish Tradition: A Collection of Scottish Folk Literature (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984).

Child, Francis James (ed.), English and Scottish Popular Ballads [5vols., 1882-98], (Boston and New York: Dover publications, 1965, 2nd edition).

Kerrigan, Catherine (ed.), An Anthology of Scottish Women Poets (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991).

Kinsley, James, The Oxford Book of Ballads (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969).

Lyle, Emily (ed.), Scottish Ballads (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1994), (ed.), Andrew Crawfurd's Collection of Ballads and Songs (Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, 1975).

Paterson, Wilma (ed.), Songs of Scotland (London: Mainstream, 1996).

Shuldam-Shaw, Patrick and Lyle, Emily (eds.), The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection [8 vols, 1981-2001], (Edinburgh:The Mercat Press).
 

Ballads in performance

It Fell on A Day, Vol 17, The Voice of the People, (London:Topic Records, 1998). CD.

Folksongs of North East Scotland: Songs from the Greig-Duncan Collection (Edinburgh: Greentrax Recordings, 1995). CD.

Mary Macqueen's Ballads (Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, no date). Audio cassette.

O'er his Grave the Grass Grew Green, Vol 3, The Voice of the People (London: Topic Records, 1998). CD.

Scottish Tradition 5: The Muckle Sangs (Edinburgh: Greentrax Recordings, 1992). CD.
 

Ballad criticism

Anderson, Flemming G., Commonplace and Creativity (Odense: Odense University Press, 1985).

Bold, Alan, The Ballad (London: Methuen, 1979).

Bronson, B.H., The Ballad as Song (Berkeley, C.A.: University of California Press, 1969), The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1959-72), The Singing Tradition of Child's Popular Ballads (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976).

Brown, Mary Ellen, 'Old Singing Women and the Canons of Scottish Balladry and Song', A History of Scottish Women's Writing, ed.Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997), pp. 44-57.

Buchan, David, The Ballad and the Folk (London: Routledge, 1972), [recommended].

Cowan, Edward J. (ed.), The Ballad in Scottish history (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2000).

Craig, David, Scottish Literature and the Scottish People 1680-1830 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1961).

Crawford, Thomas, Society and the Lyric: A Study of the Song Culture of Eighteenth Century Scotland (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1979).

Elliot, F., Further Essays on the Border Ballads (Edinburgh, 1910).

Fergusson, Sir James, 'The Ballads', Scottish Poetry: A Critical Survey, ed. James Kinsley, (Cassell, 1955), pp. 99-118.

Freedman, Jean R., 'With Child: Illegitimate Pregnancy in Scottish Traditional Ballads', Folklore Forum 24(1) (1991), pp. 3-18.

Harker, Dave, Fakesong (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1985).

Harris, Joseph (ed.), The Ballad and Oral Literature (Cambridge, Mass. London: Harvard University Press, 1991).

Henderson, Hamish, 'At the Foot o' Yon Excellin' Brae: the Language of Scottish Folksong', Scotland and the Lowland Tongue, ed J Derrick McClure, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1983), pp. 100-28, Alias MacAlias: Writings on Songs, Folk, and Literature (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1992), 'The Oral Tradition', Scotland: A Concise Cultural History, ed. Paul H. Scott, (Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 1993). pp. 159-71.

Hodgart, M.J.C., The Ballads (Hutchinson University Library, 1950).

Marsden, John and Barlow, Nia (eds.), The Illustrated Border Ballads: The Anglo-Scottish Frontier (London: Macmillan, 1990).

McCarthy, William, The Ballad Matrix: Personality, Milieu and the Oral Tradition (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1990).

McDiarmid, M.P., 'The Scottish Ballads: Appreciation and Explication', Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Scottish Language and Literature, eds. R.J. Lyall and Felicity Riddy, (Glasgow: University of Glasgow Press, 1981), pp. 107-24.

Muir, Willa, Living With Ballads (London: Hogarth, 1965).

Nicolaisen, W.F.H., 'Humour in Traditional Ballads (Mainly Scottish)', Folklore 103(1) (Routledge, 1992), pp. 27-39.

Niles, John D. and Long, Eleanor R., 'Context and Loss in Scottish Ballad Tradition', Western Folklore 45(2) (1986), pp. 93-109.

Oats, Joyce Carol, 'The English and Scottish Traditional Ballads', The Southern Review 15 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979), pp. 560-66.

Ong, Walter, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (London: Routledge, New Accents Series, 1982), Rhetoric, Romance and Technology (London: Cornell University Press, 1971).

Parry, Milman, The Making of Homeric Verse, ed. Adam Parry, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971).

Petrie, Elaine, 'What a Voice! Women, Repertoire and Loss in the Singing Tradition', A History of Scottish Women's Writing, eds. Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997), pp. 262-73.

Pound, L., Poetic Origins and the Ballad (New York: Russell, 1962).

Purser, John, Scotland's Music (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1992).

Vansina, Jan, Oral Tradition as History (Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985).

Watson, Roderick, The Literature of Scotland (London: Macmillan, 1984).

Wimberly, L.C., Folklore in the English and Scottish Ballads (New York: Dover, 1928; 2nd edition, 1965).

Wurzbach, Natascha and Salz, Simone M., Motif Index of the Child Corpus: The English and Scottish Popular Ballad (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1995).
 

Early Scottish Drama

Scottish Medieval and Renaissance Drama

Billington, Sandra, 'The fool and the moral in English and Scottish Morality Plays', Popular Drama in Northern Europe in the Later Middle Ages. A Symposium, ed. Flemming Gotthelf Anderson, (Odense, Odense University Press, 1988, pp. 113-33.

Cameron, Alisdair, 'Theatre in Scotland: 1214 to the present', Scotland: A Concise Cultural History, ed. Paul H. Scott (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1993), pp. 145-58.

Carpenter, Sarah, 'Drama and Politics: Scotland in the 1530s', Medieval English Theatre 10(2) (1998), pp. 81-90.

Findlay, Bill, 'Beginnings to 1700', A History of Scottish Theatre (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998).

Lawson, Robb, The Story of the Scots Stage (Paisley, 1917).

Mill, Anna, J., Mediaeval Plays in Scotland (WPC, 1927), 'The Records of Scots Medieval Plays: interpretations and Misinterpretations', Bards and Makars: Scottish Language and Literature: Medieval and Renaissance (Glasgow: Glasgow University Press, 1977), pp. 136-42.

Lyndsay

Lyall, R. (ed.), Ane Satire of the Thrie Estaitis (Edinburgh: Canongate, Canongate Classics no.18, 1989).
 

Criticism

Cairns, Sandra, 'Sir David Lindsay's Dreme: Poetry, Propaganda and Encomium in the Scottish Court', The Spirit of the Court: Selected Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of International Courtly Literature Society, eds. Glyn S. Burgess et al., (Dover, NH.:Brewer, 1985), pp. 110-9.

Carpenter, Sarah, 'David Lindsay and James V: court literature as current event', Vernacular Literature and Current Affairs in the Early Sixteenth Century: France, England and Scotland, eds. Jennifer Britnell and Richard Britnell, (Ashgate, 2000), pp. 135-52.

Edington, Carol, Court and Culture in Renaissance Scotland: Sir David Lindsay of the Mount (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1995).

Graf, Claude, 'Theatre and Politics: Lyndsay's Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis', Bards and

Makars: Scottish Language and Literature, Medieval and Renaissance, eds. A.J.

Aitken et al., (Glasgow: Glasgow University Press, 1977), pp. 143-55, 'Audience Involvement in Lindsay's Satyre of the Thrie Estatis', Scottish Language and Literature, Medieval and Renaissance, eds. D. Strauss and Horst W. Drescher, (Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1986), pp. 423-35.

Jack, Ronald, 'Medieval Drama Lives Again? Lindsay's Satire and Kemp's Satire', Chapman 68 (Edinburgh: Chapman Publications, 1992), pp. 81-6.

Kantrowitz, J.S., 'Encore: Lindsay's Thrie Estaitis, Date and New Evidence', SSL 10 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1972-1973), pp. 18-32, Dramatic Allegory: Lindsay's Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1975).

Reid, David, 'Rule and Misrule in Lindsay's Thrie Estaits and Pitcairne's Assembly', SLJ 11(2) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1984), pp. 5-24.

Walker, Greg, 'Sir David Lindsay's Ane Satire of the Thrie Estaitis and the Politics of Reformation', SLJ 16(2) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies,1989), pp. 5-17.
 

Pamphilus

Priscilla Bawcutt, 'Pamphilus de Amore "in Inglish Toung"', Medium Aevum 64.2 (1995) pp. 264-72

Baxter, Jamie Reid, 'Rich and rollicking or flat and unfocused?: Barnaby Riche's Phylotus contrasted with the Scottish Philotus', Odd Alliances: Scottish Studies in European Contexts, eds. N. McMillan and K. Stirling, (Glasgow: Cruithne Press, 1999), 'Politics, Passion and Poetry in the Circle of James VI: John Burel and his Surviving Works, A Palace in the Wild, eds. L.A.J.R. Houwen, A.A MacDonald and S.L. Mapstone (Leuven: Peeters, 2000), pp. 199-248.
 

Philotus

Irving, David, Philotus [preface], (Edinburgh: Bannatyne Club, 1835).

Jack, R.D.S. and Rozendaal P.A.T. (eds.), The Mercat Anthology of Early Scottish Literature 1375-1707 (Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 1997), pp. 390-432.

Mill, Anna J., Philotus Miscellany Volume, [introduction], (Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, 1933).
 
 

Criticism

Jack, R.D.S., The Italian Influence on Scottish Literature (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1972) pp. 42-53.

McDiarmid, Matthew P., 'Philotus: A Play of the Scottish Renaissance', Forum for Modern Language Studies 3 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967), pp. 223-35.

See also the section on Philotus in Unit 1E(2) by Jamie Reid Baxter, William Drummond, Women's Writing and Philotus (M.Phil in Scottish Literature, Distance Teaching Unit, Glasgow University, Department of Scottish Literature), which provides an edited text and detailed critical commentary.
 

Renaissance Poetry

General Criticism

Bernhart, A. Walter, 'Castalian Poetics and the verie Twichstane musique', Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Scottish Language and Literature (Medieval and Renaissance), eds. Dietrich Strauss and Horst W. Drescher, (Frankfurt am Main: P.Lang, 1986).

Carruthers, Gerard, 'Form and Substance in the Poetry of the Castalian Band', SLJ 26(2) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1999).

Dunnigan, Sarah M., ''O venus soverane': erotic politics and poetic practice at the courts of Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI', Terranlian Territories, ed.

Suzanne Hagemann, (Frankfurt: P. Lang, 1999), 'Scottish Women Writers c1560-c1650', A History of Scottish Women Writing, eds.

Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997), pp. 15-43.

Jack, R.D.S., 'Imitation in the Scottish Sonnet', Comparative Literature XX (Eugene,Or University of Oregon, 1968), pp. 313-28, The Italian Influence on Scottish Literature (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Unversity Press, 1972), 'Petrarch in English and Scottish Renaissance Literature', Modern Language Review 71 (Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association, 1976), pp.801-11, Scottish Literature's Debt to Italy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Unversity Press, 1986).'The French connection: Scottish and French Literature in the Renaissance', Scotia 18 (Old Dominion University, 1989), pp. 1-16.

Kastner, L.E., 'The Scottish Sonneteers and the French Poets', Modern Language Review 3 (Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association, 1907), pp. 3-15.

Kinsley, James (ed.), Scottish Poetry: A Critical Survey (London: Cassell, 1955).

McDiarmid, Matthew P., 'Scottish Love Poetry before 1600: A Character and Appreciation', Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Scottish Language and Literature (Medieval and Renaissance), eds. Dietrich Strauss and Horst W. Drescher, (Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1986).

Scott, Janet, Les Sonnets Elizabethains (Paris, 1929).

Shire, Helena M., Song, Dance and Poetry of the Court of Scotland Under James VI (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969).

Spiller, Michael R.G., The Development of the Sonnet (London: Routledge, 1992).

Waller, Gary, English Poetry of the Sixteenth Century (London: Longman, 1986).
 

James VI

Craigie, James (ed.), The Poems of King James VI of Scotland, 2 vols., (Edinburgh and London: Scottish Text Society, 1955-8).
 

Criticism

Akrigg, G.P.V., 'The Literary Achievement of King James I', University of Toronto Quarterly 44 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1975), pp. 115-29.

Dunnigan, Sarah M., 'Discovering desire in the Amatoria of James VI', Royal Subjects: the Writings of James VI and I, eds. Daniel Fischlin and Mark Fortier (Detroit: University of Wayne State Press, forthcoming 2001).

Fischlin, Daniel and Fortier, Mark (eds.), Royal Subjects: the Writings of James VI and I (University of Wayne State Press, forthcoming 2001).

Fleming, Morna, 'The Amatoria of James VI: Loving by the Reulis', Royal Subjects: the Writings of James VI and I, eds. D. Fischlin and M. Fortier (University of Wayne State Press, forthcoming 2001).

Jack, R.D.S., 'James VI and Renaissance Poetic Theory', English XVI (London: Oxford University Press, 1967), pp. 208-11, 'Poetry under King James VI', The History of Scottish Literature Vol 1, Origins to 1660, ed. R. D. S. Jack, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988).

McClure, Derrick, J., ''O Phoenix Escossois': James VI as Poet', A Day Estivall, eds.Alisoun Gardner-Medwin and Janet Hadley Williams, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1990), pp. 96-111.
 

Sir William Alexander

Kastner, L.E. and Charlton, H.B. (eds.), The Poetical Works of Sir William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, 2 vols., (Edinburgh and London: Scottish Text Society, 1921-9).
 

Criticism

Gordon, T. Crouther, Four Notable Scots (Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1960), pp. 13-39.

Jack, R.D.S., The Italian Influence on Scottish Literature (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1979).

Klein, Holger M., English and Scottish Sonnet Sequences of the Renaissance, 2 vols, (Hildesheim: Olms, 1984), pp. 150-204.

MacDiarmid, Matthew P., 'Scots Versions of Poems by Sir Robert Aytoun and Sir William Alexander', N&Q CCII (1957), pp. 32-5.

Spiller, Michael, 'Poetry After the Union 1603-1660', The History of Scottish Literature, vol 1, ed. R.D.S. Jack, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988), pp. 141-62., The Development of the Sonnet (London: Routledge, 1992).
 

Sir Robert Ayton

Gullans, C.B. (ed.), The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton (Edinburgh and London, Scottish Text Society, 1963).
 

Criticism

Scott, M.J.W., 'Robert Ayton: Scottish Metaphysical', SLJ 2 (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1975), pp. 5-16.
 

William Drummond of Hawthornden

Kastner L.E., The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden, 2 vols., (Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, 1913).
 

Criticism

Atkinson, David W., 'The Religious Voices of Drummond of Hawthornden', SSL 21 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1986), pp. 197-209, 'William Drummond as a Baroque Poet', SSL 26 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1991), pp. 395-409.

Calder, Charles, 'Artificiosa Eloquentia: Grammatical and Rhetorical Schemes in the Poetry of William Drummond', SSL 26 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1991), pp. 380-93.

Cummings, Robert, 'Drummond's Forth Feasting: A Pangyric for King James in Scotland', The Seventeenth Century 2(1) (Durham: Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies, University of Durham, 1987), pp. 1-18.

Fogle, F.R., A Critical Study of William Drummond of Hawthornden (New York, 1952).

Jack, R.D.S., 'Drummond: The Major Scottish Sources', SSL 6 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1968-9), pp. 36-46, The Italian Influence on Scottish Literature (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1972), pp. 113-43.

MacDonald, R.H., The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1971).

Morgan, Edwin, 'How Good a Poet is Drummond?', Crossing the Border (Edinburgh, 1974; Manchester: Carcanet, 1990), pp. 56-66. 'Gavin Douglas and William Drummond as Translators', Bards and Makars, eds. A.J.Aitken et. al., (Glasgow: University of Glasgow Press, 1977), pp. 149-200.

Reid, David, 'Royalty and Self-Absorption in Drummond's Poetry', SSL 22 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1987), pp. 115-31.

Severance, Sibyl Lutz, ''Some Other Figure': The Vision of Change in Flowres of Sion, 1623', Spenser Studies II (New York: AMS Press), pp. 217-28.

Wallerstein, Ruth, 'The Style of Drummond of Hawthornden in its relation to his Translators', PMLA 48 (Modern Language Association of America, 1933), pp. 1089-107

Weiss, Wolfgang, 'The Theme and Structure of Drummond of Hawthornden's Sonnet Sequence', Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Scottish Language and Literature (Medieval and Renaissance), eds. Dietrich Strauss and Horst W. Drescher, (Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1986), pp. 459-66.
 

William Fowler

Meikle, Henry W., Craigie, James and Purves, John (eds.), The Works of William Fowler, 3 vols., (Edinburgh and London: Scottish Text Society, 1912-1939).
 

Criticism

Jack, R.D.S., 'William Fowler and Italian Literature', Modern Language Review 65 (Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association, 1970), pp. 481-92., The Italian Influence (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1972)., Scottish Literature's Debt to Italy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1986), 'Poetry under King James VI', The History of Scottish Literature, vol. 1, ed. R.D.S. Jack, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988), pp. 125-39.

Purves, John, 'Fowler and Scoto-Italian Cultural Relations in the Sixteenth Century', STS, vol. 3, pp. lxxx-cl.

Smith, Janet C., Les sonnets elisabéthains (Paris, 1929).
 

Alexander Montgomerie

Parkinson, David J., Poems; Alexander Montgomerie (Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, 2000).

Cranstoun, James (ed.), The Poems of Alexander Montgomerie (Edinburgh and London: Scottish Text Society, 1887).

Stevenson, George (ed.), The Poems of Alexander Montgomerie (Edinburgh and London: Scottish Text Society, 1907), [Supplementary Volume].
 

Criticism

Jack, R.D.S., Alexander Montgomerie (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1985), 'The Lyrics of Alexander Montgomerie', Review of English Studies 20 (1969), pp. 168-81, 'The Theme of Fortune in the Verse of Alexander Montgomerie', SLJ 10(2) (Aberdeen:Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1983), pp. 25-44.

Parkinson, David J., 'Montgomerie's Language', Bryght Lanternis: Essays on the Language and Literature of Medieval and Renaissance Scotland, eds. J. Derrick McClure and Michael R.G. Spiller, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1989).

Shire, H.M., 'Alexander Montgomerie: "The Oppositione of the Court to Conscience"',SSL 3 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1965-6), pp. 144-50, Song, Dance and Poetry of the Court of Scotland under King James VI (London: Cambridge University Press, 1969).

SLJ 26(2) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1999): a special issue devoted to Montgomerie's writing with essays by Gerard Carruthers, Sarah M. Dunnigan, Morna J. Fleming, R.J. Lyall and Sally Mapstone.
 

John Stewart of Baldynneis

Crockett, Thomas (ed.), The Poems of John Stewart of Baldynneis (Edinburgh and London:Scottish Text Society, 1913).
 

Criticism

Dunlop, Geoffrey A., 'John Stewart of Baldynneis: The Scottish Desportes', Scottish Historical Review 12 (Glasgow: James Maclehose, 1915), pp. 303-10.

Dunnigan, Sarah M., 'Poetic Objects of Desire: rhetorical culture and seductive arts in the lyrics of John Stewart of Baldynneis', SLJ 26(1) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1999).

McDiarmid, Matthew P., 'John Stewart of Baldynneis', Scottish Historical Review 29 (Glasgow: James Maclehose, 1950), pp. 36-52, 'Notes on the Poems of John Stewart of Baldynneis', Review of English Studies 24 (1948), pp. 12-8.

Rodger, Donna, 'John Stewart of Baldynneis: ane maist perfyt prentes', Odd Alliances: Scottish Studies in European Contexts, eds. N. McMillan and K. Stirling, (Glasgow: Cruithne Press, 1999), pp. 2-10.
 

Widening the Range

For further bibliographical information on the writers below see relevant chapters in The History of Scottish Literature Vol I, Origins to 1660, edited by R.D.S. Jack, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988).

The Bannatyne Manuscript

Bannatyne, George, The Bannatyne Manuscript (London: Scolar Press in association with the National Library of Scotland), The Bannatyne Manuscript Written in Tyme of Past 1568 by George Bannatyne, 4 vols.,ed. W.T. Ritchie, (Edinburgh and London: Scottish Text Society, 1928-30).

Brown, J.T.T., 'The Bannatyne Manuscript: a Sixteenth Century Poetical Miscellany', SHR 1 (1903-4), pp. 136-58 (139).

Dunnigan, Sarah M., 'The creation and self-creation Mary Queen of Scots: rhetoric, sovereignty, and female controversies in sixteenth century Scottish poetry', Scotlands 5.2 (1998), pp. 65-88.

Fox, Denton, 'Manuscripts and Prints of Scots Poetry in the Sixteenth Century', Bards and Makars, eds. Adam J. Aitken et al., (Glasgow: University of Glasgow Press, 1977), pp. 156-71.

Heijnsbergen, Theo van, 'The Interaction between Literature and History in Queen Mary's Edinburgh: the Bannatyne Manuscript and its Prosopographical Context', The Renaissance in Scotland: Studies in Literature, Religion, History and Culture Offered to John Durkan, eds. A.A. MacDonald et al., (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994), pp. 183-225.

Kratzmann, Gregory, 'Sixteenth Century Secular Poetry', The History of Scottish Literature, vol. 1, ed. R.D.S. Jack, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1989), pp. 105-24.

Lynch, Michael, 'Queen Mary's triumph: The Baptismal Celebrations at Stirling in December 1566', SHR 69 (1990), pp. 1-21.

MacDonald, Alasdair, 'The Bannatyne Manuscript: A Marian Anthology', Innes Review 37 (1986), pp. 36-47, 'The printed book that never was: George Bannatyne's poetic anthology (1568)',

Boeken in de late Middeleeuwen, eds. J.M.M. Hermans and K. van der Hoek, (Groningen, 1993), pp. 101-10.

Newlyn, Evelyn S., 'The Political Dimensions of Desire and Sexuality in Poems of the Bannatyne Manuscript', Selected Essays on Scottish Language and Literature: A Festschrift in Honour of Allan H. MacLaine, ed. Stephen R.

McKenna, (Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992), pp. 75-96, 'The Wryttar to the Reidaris: Editing Practices and Politics in the Bannatyne Manuscript', SSL 31 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1999), pp. 14-30, 'Of Vertew Nobillest and Serpent Wrinkis: the Taxonomy of the Female in the Bannatyne Manuscript', Scotia: Interdisciplinary Journal of Scottish Studies 14 (199), pp. 1-12.

Ramson, William, 'On Bannatyne's Editing', Bards and Makars, eds. Adam J. Aitken et al., (Glasgow: University of Glasgow Press, 1977), pp. 172 - 83.
 

John Bellenden

Chambers, R.W., Batho, E.C. and Husbands H.W. (eds.), The Chronicles of Scotland. Compiled by Hector Boece and Translated into Scots by John Bellenden, 2 vols., (Edinburgh and London: Scottish Text Society, 1936-41).

Craigie, W.A. (ed.), Livy's History of Rome Translated into Scots by John Bellenden, 2 vols., (Edinburgh and London: Scottish Text Society, 1901-2).
 

Criticism

Royan, Nicola, 'The Relationship between Scotorum Historia of Hector Boece and John Bellenden's Chronicles of Scotland', The Rose and the Thistle: Essays on the Culture of Late Medieval and Renaissance Scotland, eds. Sally Mapstone and Juliette Wood, (East Linton: Tuckwell, 1998).
 

Hector Boece

Moir, J. (ed.), Lives of the Bishops of Aberdeen, Translated from Hector Boece (Aberdeen: New Spalding Club, 1894).

Watson, G. (ed.), The Mar Lodge Translation of the History of Scotland by Hector Boece (Edinburgh and London: Scottish Text Society, 1964).

Criticism

Royan, Nicola, 'The Relationship between Scotorum Historia of Hector Boece and John Bellenden's Chronicles of Scotland', The Rose and the Thistle: Essays on the Culture of Late Medieval and Renaissance Scotland, eds. Sally Mapstone and Juliette Wood, (East Linton: Tuckwell, 1998).
 

Gavin Douglas

Bawcutt, P. (ed.), The Shorter Poems of Gavin Douglas (Edinburgh and London: Blackwood,1967).

Caldwell, D.F.C. (ed.), Selections from Gavin Douglas (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964).

Parkinson, David (ed.), The Palis of Honoure (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992).

Small, J. (ed.), The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas, 4 vols., (Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1874).

Criticism

(i) The Eneados

Blyth, Charles R., 'Gavin Douglas's Prologues of Natural Description', Philological Quarterly 49 (Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1970), pp. 164-77.

Canitz, A.E.C., 'From Aeneid to Eneados: Theory and Practice of Gavin Douglas's Translation', Medievalia et Humanistica: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture 17 (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1991), pp. 81-99, 'The Prologue to the Eneados: Gavin Douglas's Directions for Reading', SSL 25 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1990), pp. 1-22.

Cummings, Robert, ''To the Cart the Fift Quheill': Gavin Douglas's Humanist Supplement to the Eneados', Translation & Literature 4(2) (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995), pp. 133-56.

Ebin, Lois, 'The Role of the Narrator in the Prologues to Gavin Douglas's Eneados', The Chaucer Review: A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literary Criticism 14 (Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1980), pp. 353-65.

Ghosh, Kantik, ''The Fift Quheill': Gavin Douglas's Maffeo Vegio', SLJ 22(1) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1995), pp. 5-21.

Morgan, Edwin, 'Gavin Douglas and William Drummond as Translators', Bards and Makars: Scottish Language and Literature: Medieval and Renaissance, eds.

Adam J. Aitken et al., (Glasgow: University of Glasgow Press, 1977).

Parkinson, David, 'The Farce of Modesty in Gavin Douglas's The Palis of Honoure', Philological Quarterly 70(1) (Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1991), pp. 13-25.

Pinti, Daniel J., 'The Vernacular Gloss(ed) in Gavin Douglas's Eneados', Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 7(2) (Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval & Renaissance Text & Studies, SUNY Binghamton, 1995), pp. 443-64.
 

ii'The Palice of Honour':

Miskimin, Alice, 'The Design of Douglas's "Palice of Honour"', Actes du 2e colloque de langue et de litterature ecossaises (Moyen Age et Renaissance), eds. Blanchot and Graf, (Strasbourg: Université de Strasbourg, 1979).

Parkinson, David, 'The Farce of Modesty in Gavin Douglas's "The Palis of Honoure"', Philological Quarterly 70(1) (Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1991), pp. 13-25.
 

The Freiris of Berwick

Jack, R.D.S., and Rozendaal, P.A.T., The Mercat Anthology of Early Scottish Literature, 1375-1707 (Edinburgh: Mercat, 1997), pp. 152-65.

Criticism

Jack, R.D.S., The Freiris of Berwick and Chaucerian Fabliau', SSL 16 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1981), pp. 145-52.
 

Richard Holland

Bawcutt, Priscilla and Riddy, Felicity (eds.), Longer Scottish Poems vol. 1. 1375-1650 (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1987).

Armours, F.J. (ed.), Scottish Alliterative Poems, 2 vols., (Edinburgh and London: Scottish Text Society, 1892-9).

Laing, David (ed.), The Buke of the Howlat (Edinburgh: Bannatyne Club Publications, 1823).
 

Criticism

McDiarmid, Matthew P., 'Richard Holland's Buke of the Howlat: An interpretation', Medium Aevum 38 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969), pp. 277-90.

Parkinson, David, 'Mobbing Scenes in Middle Scots Verse: Holland, Douglas, Dunbar', Journal of English and Germanic Philology 85(4) (1986), pp. 494-509.

Riddy, Felicity, 'The Alliterative Revival', The History of Scottish Literature, vol. 1, ed. R.D.S. Jack (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988).

Schiebe, Regina, 'The Major Professional Skills of the Dove in The Buke of the Howlat', Animals and the Symbolic in Medieval Art and Literature, ed. L.A.J.R. Houwen (Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1997).
 

John Knox

Laing, David (ed.), The Works of John Knox, 6 vols., (Edinburgh: Woodrow Society, 1846-55).
 

Criticism

Farrow, Kenneth D., 'Humour, Logic, Imagery and Sources in the Prose Writings of John Knox', SSL 25 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1990), pp. 154-75.

Felch, Susan M., 'The Rhetoric of Biblical Authority: John Knox and the Question of Women', Sixteenth Century Journal: Journal of Early Modern Studies 26(4) (Davidson, NC: Davidson College, 1995), pp. 805-22.

Hansen, Melanie, 'The Word and the Throne: John Knox's The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women', Voicing Women: Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Writing, eds. Kate Chedgzoy, Melanie Hansen and Suzanne Trill, (Keele: Keele University Press, 1996).

Jack, R.D.S, 'The Prose of John Knox: A Re-Assessment', Prose Studies 4(3) (1981), pp. 239-51.

Janton, Pierre, 'John Knox and Literature', Actes du 2e colloque de langue et de litterature ecossaises (Moyen Age et Renaissance), eds. Blanchot and Graf, (Strasbourg: Université de Strasbourg, 1979).

Lyall, R.J., 'Vernacular Prose before the Reformation', The History of Scottish Literature, vol. I, ed. R.D.S. Jack, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988).

Richards, Judith M., 'To Promote a Woman to Beare Rule': Talking of Queens in Mid-Tudor England', Sixteenth Century Journal: Journal of Early Modern Studies 28(1) (Davidson, NC: Davidson College, 1997), pp. 101-21.
 

David Lyndsay: Poetry

Burger, Glenn D., 'Poetical Invention and Ethical Wisdom in Lindsay's 'Testament of Papyngo'', SSL 24 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1989), pp. 164-80.

Kratzmann, Gregory D., 'Sixteenth-Century Secular Poetry', The History of Scottish Literature, vol. I, ed. R.D.S. Jack, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988).

Cairns, Sandra, 'Sir David Lindsay's Dreme: Poetry, Propaganda, and Encomium in the Scottish Court', The Spirit of the Court: Selected Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society (Toronto, 1983), eds. Glyn S. Burgess and Robert A. Taylor, (Woodbridge: Brewer,1985).

Lyall, R.J., 'Complaint, Satire and Invective in Middle Scots Literature', Church,Politics, and Society: Scotland, 1408-1929, ed. Norman Macdougall,(Edinburgh: John Donald, 1983).

Williams, Janet Hadley, 'The Lyon and the Hound: Sir David Lyndsay's Complaint and Confession of Bagsche', Parergon 31 (1981), pp. 3-11, '"Althocht I beir nocht lyke ane baird": Sir David Lyndsay's Complaynt', SLJ 9(2) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1982), pp. 5-20, '"Thus Euery Man Said for Hym Self": The Voices of Sir David Lyndsay's Poems', Bryght Lanternis: Essays on the Language and Literature ofMedieval and Renaissance Scotland, eds. J. Derrick McClure and M.R.G. Spiller, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1989), pp. 258-72, 'Sir David Lyndsay's "Antique" and "Plesand" Stories', A Day Estivall, eds. A.Gardner-Medwin and J. Hadley Williams, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1990), pp. 155-66.
 

The Meroure of Wysdome

Macpherson, Charles and Quinn, F. (eds.), The Meroure of Wysdome, 2 vols., (Edinburgh andLondon: Scottish Text Society, 1926-65).
 

Criticism

Broadie, Alexander, The Tradition of Scottish Philosophy (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1990), The Circle of John Mair: Logic and Logicians in Pre-Reformation Scotland (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985).

Burns, J.H., The True Law of Kingship: Concepts of Monarchy in Early Modern Scotland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), 'John Ireland and The Meroure of Wyssdome', Innes Review 6 (Glasgow: Scottish Catholic Historical Committee, 1955), pp. 77-98, 'John Ireland: Theology and political affairs in the late fifteenth century', Innes Review 41 (Glasgow: Scottish Catholic Historical Committee, 1990), pp. 151-81.

Lyall, R.J., 'Vernacular Prose before the Reformation', The History of Scottish Literature, vol. IV, ed. R.D.S. Jack, (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987), pp. 163-82.

MacDonald, Craig, 'The Thrie Prestis of Peblis and The Meroure of Wyssdome: a possible relationship', SSL 17 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1982), pp. 153-64, 'Mirror, Filter or Magnifying Glass: John Ireland's Meroure of Wyssdome?', SSL 26 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1991), pp. 448-55.

Mapstone, Sally, 'Was there a Court Literature in Fifteenth-Century Scotland?', SSL XXVI (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1991).

Mason, Roger A., 'Kingship, tyranny and the right to resist in fifteenth-century Scotland' SHR 66 (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987), pp. 125-51.
 

Rauf Coilyear

Armours, F.J. (ed.), Scottish Alliterative Poems, 2 vols., (Edinburgh and London: Scottish Text Society, 1892-9), [includes The Buke of the Howlat].

Bawcutt, Priscilla and Riddy, Felicity (eds.), Longer Scottish Poems vol. 1, 1375-1650 (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1987).

Speed, Diane (ed.), The Tale of Ralph the Collier (New York: P. Lang, 1991).
 

Criticism

Craigie, Sir William, 'The Scottish Alliterative Poems', Proceedings of the British Academy 28 (London: Oxford University Press, 1942), pp. 217-36.

Morris, Margaret Kissam, 'Generic Oxymoron in The Taill of Rauf Coilyear', Voices in Translation: the authority of 'olde books' in medieval literature, eds.

Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi et. al., (New York: AMS Press, 1992), pp. 137-55.

Shepherd, S.H.A., '"of thy glitterand gyde haue I na gle": the taill of rauf Coilyear',Archiv fur das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 228(2) (Braunschweig: Georg Westermann, 1991), pp. 284-98.

Walsh, Elizabeth, 'The Taill of Rauf Coilyear: oral motif in literary guise', SLJ 6(2) (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1979), pp. 5-19.
 

Satirical Poetry of the Reformation

Cranstoun, James (ed.), Satirical Poems of the Time of the Reformation, 2 vols., (Edinburgh and London: Scottish Text Society, 1890-3). See also the selection in The Mercat Anthology of Early Scottish Literature, edited by R.D.S. Jack and P.A.T. Rozendaal, (Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 1997).
 

Alexander Scott

Cranstoun, James (ed.), The Poems of Alexander Scott (Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society,1886).

van Heijnsbergen, T., 'The Love Lyrics of Alexander Scott', SSL 26 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1991), pp. 336-49.
 

Thomas Urqhuart

Jack, R.D.S. and Lyall, R.J. (eds.), The Jewel (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1983).
 

Criticism

Boston, Richard, The Admirable Urquhart: Selected Writings (London: Gordon Fraser Gallery, 1975).

Craik, Roger, 'The Triumph of Exuberance over Inhibition: Sir Thomas Urquhart's Translation of Rabelais', Lamar Journal of the Humanities 22(1) (Beaumont, TX: Lamar University Press, 1996), pp. 41-64.

Magan, James H., 'Verbal Excess and Sexual Abstinence', Logophile: The Cambridge Journal of Words and Language 3(2) (Cambridge: Logophile Press, 1979), pp. 1-7.

McClure, Derrick J., 'The 'Universal Languages' of Thomas Urquhart and George Dalgarno', Actes du 2e Colloque de langue et de litterature ecossaises (Moyen Age et Renaissance), eds. Blanchot and Graf, (Strasbourg: Université de Strasbourg, 1979).
 

The Wallace

King, Elspeth (intro.), Blind Harry's Wallace; William Hamilton of Gilbertfield (Edinburgh: Luath Press, 1998), [an eighteenth-century 'translation' of the text].

MacDiarmid, Matthew P. (ed.), Harry's Wallace, 2 vols., (Edinburgh: Blackwood,1968-9).
 

Criticism

Goldstein, R.J., The Matter of Scotland: Historical Narrative in Medieval Scotland (Lincon: Nebraska, 1993), 'Blind Hary's myth of blood: The Ideological Closure of The Wallace', SSL 25 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1990), pp. 70-82.

Mapstone, Sally, 'The Scotichronicon's First Readers', Church Chronicle and Learning In Medieval and Early Renaissance Scotland, ed. B.E. Crawford, (Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 1999), pp. 31-55.

Walsh, Elizabeth, 'Hary's Wallace: The evolution of a Hero', SLJ 11 (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1984), pp. 5-19.
 

James Wedderburn

Wedderburn, James, A Compendious Book of Psalms and Spiritual Songs, commonly known as the Gude and Godlie Ballates (Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, STS First Series 39, 1897).

Ross, Iain (ed.), The gude and godlie ballatis by James, John and Robert Wedderburn (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, Saltire Society, 1939).
 

Gaelic Literature

Baoill, Colm Ó and Bateman, Meg (eds.), Gà ir nan Clarsach: the Harp's Cry: an Anthology of Seventeenth Century Gaelic Poetry (Edinburgh: Birlinn,1994).

Quiggin, Edmund Crosby and Fraser, John, Poems from the Book of the Dean of Lismore (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1937).

Ross, Neil, Heroic poetry from the Book of the Dean of Lismore (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1939).

Watson, William John and MacGregor, James, Scottish Verse from the Book of Dean of Lismore (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd for the Scottish Gaelic Texts Society, 1978).
 

Criticism (see also Women's Writing Bibliography)

Gillies, William, 'Courtly and Satiric Poems in the Book of the Dean of Lismore', Scottish Studies 21(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1977), pp. 35-53.

Thomson, Derick, An Introduction to Gaelic Poetry (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1974; 1990), Chapters 1-4.
 

Women Writers

Criticism

Bawcutt, Priscilla, 'Women and their Books in Scotland', Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts in Late Medieval Britain. Essays for Felicity Riddy, eds. Jocelyn Wogan-Browne et. al., (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000).

Dunnigan, Sarah M., 'Scottish Women Writers c.1560-c.1650', The History of Scottish Women's Writing, eds. Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997), pp. 15-43.

Frater, Anne, 'The Gaelic Tradition up to 1750', A History of Scottish Women's Writing, eds. Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997), pp. 1-14, 'Women of the Gàidhealtachd and their Songs to 1750', Women in Scotland c1100-c1750, eds. Elizabeth Ewan and Maureen Meikle, (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1999), pp. 67-79.

Mullan, David, 'Mistress Rutherford's Narrative: A Scottish Puritan Autobiography', Bunyan Studies 7 (London: Bunyan Studies, 1997), pp. 13-37.

Newlyn, Evelyn S., 'Images of Women in Sixteenth-Century Scottish Literary Manuscripts', Women in Scotland c1100-1750, eds. Elizabeth Ewan and Maureen Meikle, (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1999), pp. 56-66.
 

Anna Hume

The Triumphes of Love: Chastitie: Death (Edinburgh: Evan Tyler, 1644), extracted in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer, (London: Virago Press, 1988), pp. 101-5.
 

Elizabeth Melville

Excerpts of Ane Godlie Dreme in: Greer, Germaine et. al. (eds.), Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth Century Women's Verse (London: Virago Press, 1988).

Kerrigan, Catherine (ed.), An Anthology of Scottish Women Poets (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991).

Travitsky, Betty (ed.), The Paradise of Women, Writings by English Women of the Renaissance (Westport, Conn. London: Greenwood Press, 1981). The first 1603 edition reproduced in: Laing, David (ed.), Early Popular Poetry of Scotland and the Northern Border, 2 vols., (London, 1822), Early Metrical Tales including the History of Sir Eger, Sir Gryme and Sir Greysteil (Edinburgh, first pub. 1826), pp. 149-69.

Lawson, Alexander (ed.), Poems of Alexander Hume (Edinburgh and London: Blackwood,1920) pp. 184-98.
 

Mary Queen of Scots

Arbuthnot, P. Stewart-MacKenzie (ed.), Queen Mary's Silver Book: a collection of poems and essays, ed. P. Mackenzie Stewart Arbuthnot, (London: Bell, 1907).

Bax, C. (trans.), The Silver Casket: being love-letters and love-poems attributed to Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, modernised with an introduction by C. Bax, (London: Home & Van Thal, 1946).

Bell, Robin (trans.), Bittersweet within my heart: the collected poems of Mary, Queen of Scots (London: Pavilion, 1992).

Sharman, Julian (ed.), The Poems of Mary Queen of Scots (London, 1873).
 

Criticism

Dunnigan, Sarah M., 'The creation and self-creation of Mary Queen of Scots: rhetoric, sovereignty and femininity in sixteenth century Scottish poetry', Scotlands (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999), 'Rewriting the Renaissance language and love and desire: the 'bodily burdein' in the poetry of Mary, Queen of Scots', Gramma 4 (1996), pp. 183-95.