William Dunbar, 'The Nobill Poyet': Essays in Honour of Priscilla Bawcutt

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• William Dunbar, 'The Nobill Poyet' i
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Preface ix
• Abbreviations xi
• Contributors xiii
• Introduction: William Dunbar and the Book Culture of Sixteenth-Century Scotland 1
• One - The Chepman and Myllar Texts of Dunbar 24
• Two - The Maitland Folio Manuscript as a Verse Anthology 40
• Three - Editing Dunbar: the Tradition 51
• Four - The Stylistic Relationship Between Dunbar and Douglas 69
• Five - Dunbar and His Immediate Heirs 85
• Six - Dunbar, Scott and the Making of Poetry 108
• Seven - Sir Richard Maitland and William Dunbar: Textual Symbiosis and Poetic Individuality 134
• Eight - Dunbar's Metrical Technique 150
• Nine - Classifying Dunbar: Modes, Manners, and Styles 167

• William Dunbar, 'The Nobill Poyet' i
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Preface ix
• Abbreviations xi
• Contributors xiii
• Introduction: William Dunbar and the Book Culture of Sixteenth-Century Scotland 1
• One - The Chepman and Myllar Texts of Dunbar 24
• Two - The Maitland Folio Manuscript as a Verse Anthology 40
• Three - Editing Dunbar: the Tradition 51
• Four - The Stylistic Relationship Between Dunbar and Douglas 69
• Five - Dunbar and His Immediate Heirs 85
• Six - Dunbar, Scott and the Making of Poetry 108
• Seven - Sir Richard Maitland and William Dunbar: Textual Symbiosis and Poetic Individuality 134
• Eight - Dunbar's Metrical Technique 150
• Nine - Classifying Dunbar: Modes, Manners, and Styles 167
• Ten - Aureation Revisited: the Latinate Vocabulary of Dunbar's High and Plain Styles 183
• Eleven - 'Hale, Sterne Superne' and Its Literary Background 198
• Twelve - A Bibliography of the Published Writings of Priscilla Bawcutt 211
• Bibliography 218
• Index 228