William Dunbar

William Dunbar is widely recognised as a major medieval poet, probably the most brilliant between Chaucer and Spenser. This new addition to the Longman Annotated Texts series provides valuable coverage of seventy of Dunbar's finest poems. Each is complete with useful headnotes which discuss theme, genre, metrical form, text and evidence to date the poem where this is available. All poems have been provided with annotation and glosses to aid the reader's understanding, and Latin is translated into English throughout. The introduction provides a guide to the most important aspects of Dunbar and his poetry, and references to further reading. This edition of William Dunbar will be welcomed by students of Scottish and English literature, especially by those with an interest in the medieval and renaissance periods.

Selected Poems

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.

Poems

Sir Richard Maitland

Containing Poems by Sir Richard Maitland, Dunbar, Douglas, Henryson, and Others

The Maitland Folio Manuscript

Poems Edited with Introductions, Various Readings and Notes by J. Schipper

The Poems of William Dunbar

Dunbar's Two Married Women and the Widow. [A Poem.] Translated Into English Verse

George Hunter

Trey Berry

Pam Beasley

Jeanne Clements

At the same time that he charged Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the great Northwest, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned William Dunbar and George Hunter to make a parallel journey through the southern unmapped regions of the Louisiana Purchase. From October 16, 1804, to January 26, 1805, Dunbar and Hunter, both renowned scientists, made their way through what is now northern Louisiana and southern Arkansas, ascending the Ouachita River and investigating the natural curiosity called "the hot springs." Though Dunbar and Hunter's journals have the same value and appeal as Lewis's, theirs have long been out of print and have never been published in a single volume. Their daily accounts now appear together, enhanced by a wealth of useful notes. The team of the "Grand Expedition," as it was optimistically named, was the first to send its findings on the newly annexed territory to the president, who received Dunbar and Hunter's detailed journals with pleasure. They include descriptions of flora and fauna, geology, weather, landscapes, and native peoples and European settlers, as well as astronomical and navigational records that allowed the first accurate English maps of the region and its waterways to be produced. Their scientific experiments conducted at the hot springs may be among the first to discover a microscopic phenomena still under research today. The Forgotten Expedition completes the picture of the Louisiana Purchase presented through the journals of explorers Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike, and Thomas Freeman and Peter Custis. It is a treasure of the early natural history of North America and the first depiction of this new U.S. southern frontier. "Set out at half past six a.m. The morning very foggy on the river & not so cold as yesterday. The banks still rising in height by slow degrees & the land more & more intermixed with sand.... Found on the bank a young Fawn just killed by a Panther, the throat being tore very much. We took it on board & made a hearty meal of it, or two for all hands."

The Louisiana Purchase Journals of Dunbar and Hunter

The Forgotten Expedition, 1804-1805

First Collected and Published in the Year M.DCCC.XXXIV.. Supplement

The Poems ... Now First Collected, with Notes and a Memoir of His Life by David Laing

The poems of William Dunbar, ed. by J. Small (Æ. J. G. Mackay, W. Gregor).

The Poems of William Dunbar, with Introduction, Notes and Glossary

Being a Selection from the Poems of an Old Makar

Dunbar

With Notes, and a Memoir of His Life

The Poems of William Dunbar, Now First Collected

Scottish poet William Dunbar is usually considered one of the most important figures of fifteenth-century British literature, and may lay claim to being the finest lyric poet writing in English in the century and half between the death of Chaucer in 1400 and the appearance of Tottel's Miscellany in 1557. Dunbar's poems offer vivid depictions of late medieval Scottish society and serve up a striking pageant of colorful figures at the court of James IV (r. 1488-1513), with which he was associated for much of his adult life. The poems are remarkable both for their diversity and variability and for their multiplicity of voices, styles, and tones. The great variety of poems within Dunbar's canon includes religious hymns of exaltation, moral poems on a wide range of serious themes, comic and parodic poems of extreme salaciousness and scatological coarseness, general satires against the times, and satires with much more specific targets, often a single individual. This edition of eighty-four poems attributed to Dunbar includes extensive background material and explanatory notes that are sure to be of interest to students and Dunbar enthusiasts alike. The edition is rounded out with textual notes, an index of first lines, and a glossary.

The Complete Works

Association for Scottish Literary Studies

Aimed at scholars of European Medieval and Renaissance literature, this work gives the text of various Dunbar poem and provides notes and reference material, allowing each poem to be studied. It contains introduction; a listing of textual variants in various early manuscripts and printings; notes on every poem; and a glossary.

William Dunbar

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