Alexander Scott (16th-century poet)

For other people named Alexander Scott, see Alexander Scott (disambiguation).

Alexander Scott (1520? – 1582/1583) was a Scottish poet. He is believed to have spent most of his time in or near Edinburgh. Thirty-six short poems are attributed to him, including Ane New Yeir Gift to Quene Mary, The Rondel of Love, and a satire, Justing at the Drum. According to an older view, "he has great variety of metre, and is graceful and musical, but his satirical pieces are often extremely coarse".^[1]

According to the modern viewpoint of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, "Because of its range, explicitness, and open-endedness, Scott's work has been described as ethically incoherent, but recent revisions of such essentialist readings have restored his multilayered texts as attractively complex poems, an appealing alternative to contemporary English poetry as anthologized in Tottel's Miscellany (1557)." ^[2]

References

↑ Cousin, John William (1910). " Scott, Alexander". A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons. Wikisource
↑ Heijnsbergen, Theo van (2004). "Scott, Alexander (c.1520–1582/3)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/24857. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

External links

Smith, George Gregory (1911). "Scott, Alexander". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.).
Cranstou, James (1897). "Scott, Alexander (1525?-1584)". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography. 51. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Scots makars

c. 1370 – c. 1460	John Barbour Huchoun James I Sir Gilbert Hay Andrew of Wyntoun Richard Holland

c. 1460 – c. 1560	Blind Hary Robert Henryson Walter Kennedy William Dunbar Gavin Douglas David Lyndsay William Stewart

c. 1560 – 17th century	Alexander Scott Alexander Montgomerie James VI Castalian Band William Fowler Elizabeth Melville Alexander Hume Robert Sempill Robert Sempill the younger Francis Sempill

18th century – 20th 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 (from 2004)	Edwin Morgan Liz Lochhead Jackie Kay

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