Alexander Scott

Alexander Scott
Personal details
Birth	1520 (Gregorian)
Died	1584
Eddication
Leids spoken	Inglis
Thrift
Thrift	poetan screiver

Alexander Scott (?1520 − 1582/3) wis a Scots makar. It is jaloused that he bid maist o his time in Embra or near tae it. Thirty-sax poems haes his name on thaim, sic as Ane New Yeir Gift to Quene Mary, The Rondel of Love, but his maist weel kent poem is To Luve Unluvit.^[1]^[2]

References

↑ Daiches, D. (1982), Literature and Gentility in Scotland, The University Press, Edinburgh
↑ James Emerson Phillips, Images of a Queen: Mary Stuart in Sixteenth-century Literature (University of California, 1964), p. 22.

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[1] Daiches, D. (1982), Literature and Gentility in Scotland, The University Press, Edinburgh

[2] James Emerson Phillips, Images of a Queen: Mary Stuart in Sixteenth-century Literature (University of California, 1964), p. 22.

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v t e Scots makars
c. 1370 – c. 1460	John Barbour Huchoun James I Sir Gilbert Hay Andrew o Wyntoun Richard Holland
c. 1460 – c. 1560	Blind Hary Robert Henryson Walter Kennedy William Dunbar Gavin Douglas David Lyndsay Richard Maitland John Stewart o Baldynneis William Stewart
c. 1560 – 17t century	Alexander Scott Alexander Montgomerie James VI Castalian Band William Fowler Elizabeth Melville Alexander Hume Robert Sempill Robert Sempill the younger Francis Sempill William Drummond
18t century – 20t century	Allan Ramsay Robert Fergusson Robert Burns Robert Louis Stevenson Alicia Ann Spottiswoode William Soutar Robert Garioch Sydney Goodsir Smith Tom Scott George Campbell Hay Alexander Scott Hamish Henderson William Neill
Official appointment (frae 2004)	Edwin Morgan Liz Lochhead Jackie Kay Kathleen Jamie