The Early Scottish Makars: Henryson, Dunbar, Douglas, and Lyndsay

Author / Editor
Courter, Jean M.

Title
The Early Scottish Makars: Henryson, Dunbar, Douglas, and Lyndsay

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1993): 3206A.

Description
The term "Scottish Chaucerians," evolving from Henryson's "Testament of Criseyde," proves inaccurate, overly limited, and unfortunate, since the fifteenth-century Scottish poets,superior to their English contemporaries, initiated their nations great and independent literary tradition.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.