Liverpool University Press: Books: The Poems of William Dunbar

A selection of some fifty of Dunbar’s poems, with introduction, notes, glossary, and six pages of “appreciations” ranging from John Pinkerton’s (1786) to C.S. Lewis (1954). The notes to this edition gave a great deal of historical and linguistic information as well as much critical interpretation of individual poems.

James Kinsley was formerly Professor of English Studies at the University of Nottingham

An excellent selection of some fifty of Dunbar’s poems, with introduction, notes, glossary... An admirable volume that deserves to be widely used.

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James Kinsley was formerly Professor of English Studies at the University of Nottingham.

Table of Contents
Section Title	Page	Price
Cover	1
Title Page	4
Copyright Page	5
Contents	8
Preface	6
Introduction	12
Biographical and Textual Note	21
Apprecrations	24
Divine Poems	30
1. Rorate celi desuper	30
2. Amang thir freiris within ane cloister	31
3. Done is a battell on the dragon blak	36
4. Hale sterne superne, hale in eterne	37
Celebrations	39
5. Quhen Merche wes with variand windis past ('The Thistle and the Rose')	39
6. Blyth Aberdeane, thow beriall of all tounis	45
7. Renownit, ryalI, right reverend and serene	47
8. Lang heff l maed of ladyes quhytt	49
Poems of Love	50
9. Sweit rois of vertew and of gentilnes	50
10. Sen that l am a presoneir ('Bewty and the Presoncir1	50
11. Ryght as the stern of day begouth to schyne ('The Goldyn Targe')	54
12. Apon the Midsummer evin. mirriest of nichtis ('The Tretis of the tua mariit Wemen and the Wedo')	62
13. In secreit place this hyndir nycht	69
Visions and Nightmares	72
14. This nycht befoir the dawing cleir ('How Dumbar wes desyrd to be ane Freir')	72
15. As yung Awrora with cristall haile ('The fenye it freir of Tungland')	73
16. Lucina schynnyng in silence of the nicht	77
17. Off Februar the fyiftene nycht ('The Dance of the sevin deidly Synnis')	79
18. Nixt that a turnament wes tryid	82
19. Betuix twell houris and ellevin	86
Moralities	88
20. He that hes gold and grit riches	88
21. I seik about this warld unstabille	89
22. My heid did yak yester nicht	89
23. I that in heill wes and gladnes ('Lament for the Makaris')	90
24. In to thir dirk and drublie dayis	93
25. Full oft I mus and hes in thocht	95
26. Quhat is this lyfe bot ane straucht way to deid	96
27. Salviour, suppois my sensualitie	96
28. Now culit is dame Venus brand	97
29. To speik of science, craft, or sapience	98
30. Do verrit with drerne, devysing in my slummer	99
31. Ane murlandis man of uplandis mak	102
32. Quhy will ye marchantis of renoun	103
33. Airlie on As Wodnisday	106
Life at Court	108
34, Schir Joh ine the Ros, ane thing thair is compild ('The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie')	108
35. Sir Jhon Sinclair begowthe to dance ('Of a Dance in the-Quenis Chalmer')	112
36. Now lythis off ane gentill knycht	114
37. The wardraipper of Venus boure	116
38. O gracious princes, guid and fair	117
39. Schir, ye have mony servitouris	117
40. Schir, for your grace bayth nicht and day	120
41. Schir, yit remembir as of befoir	121
42. Schir, lett it nevir in toun be tald	123
43. I, Maister Andro Kennedy	125
44. We that ar heir in hevins glory ('Dirige to the King')	127
Poems of Uncertain authorship	130
45. My gudame wes a gay wif, bot scho wes ryght gend ('The Ballad of Kynd Kittok')	130
46. Harry, harry. hobbillschowe	131
Notes	137
Glossary	168

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