William Dunbar

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Standard Name: Dunbar, William

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Reception Liz Lochhead
LL was the subject of two National Book League pamphlets, in 1978 and again in 1986. She was one of the first four twentieth-century Scottish poets (of a total of twelve) whose busts were placed...
Textual Production Anne Stevenson
In June 2006 she published A Lament for the Makers, a series whose title, form (a dream vision) and theme (an imaginary underworld of poets of the past) remember William Dunbar and the medieval...

Timeline

Around 1505: William Dunbar composed the well-known poem...

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Around 1505

William Dunbar composed the well-known poem beginning I that in heill wes and gladnes (which in the late eighteenth century acquired the title The Lament for the Makaris): a poem in Scots on the...

Probably 1507: William Dunbar published The Tretis of the...

Writing climate item

Probably 1507

William Dunbar published The Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo (that is, the two married women and the widow), a satirical dialogue in Scots verse.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

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