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1512–1542 · King of Scotland from 1513 to 1542

Also known as: Jakob V., Goodman of Ballengeich, James Stewart, James V, King of Scotland, James V., Яков V

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James I of Scotland1394–1437
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Fellow royal Scots poet, also traditionally credited with the comic rustic festival poems 'Christis Kirk on the Green' and 'Peblis to the Play'. (AI reason)
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William Dunbar1460–1520
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Makar whose boisterous, comic and courtly Scots poetry shares the lively tone of the festival poems. (AI reason)
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Robert Henryson1425–1506
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Middle Scots poet whose humorous, earthy fables share a vernacular, popular register. (AI reason)
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Allan Ramsay1686–1758
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Revived and added cantos to 'Christis Kirk on the Green', writing in the same comic rustic Scots vein. (AI reason)
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Gavin Douglas1474–1522
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Early sixteenth-century Scots verse rich in vernacular vocabulary and vivid description. (AI reason)
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Robert Fergusson1750–1774
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Used the Christis Kirk stanza for exuberant Scots poems of popular festivity and crowds. (AI reason)
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Alexander Montgomerie1545–1598
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Later Scots court poet continuing the makar tradition of lively stanzaic verse. (AI reason)
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Robert Burns1759–1796
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Adapted the Christis Kirk stanza in comic Scots poems of rural gatherings like 'The Holy Fair' and 'Halloween'. (AI reason)
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Two ancient Scottish poems
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Ad Serenissimum Scotorum Regem Iacobum Quintum de suscepto Regni Regimine a diis feliciter ominato strena (1969)
(A Speech on Toleration in Matters of Religion made to King James V. of Scotland by one of his Councillors)
A Speech Touching Toleration In Matters of Religion. Delivered a hundred years since by a Privy Councellor to King James the 5th. of Scotland. (ornament)