S. M. Dunnigan

AH 's delicate verses were praised in her own day by the leading Scots poet William Drummond of Hawthornden . She is the only woman listed in James Maidment 's scholarly Catalogues of Scotish Writers...

EM was a staunch Scottish Presbyterian whose surviving poems and letters almost all relate to the efforts of James the Sixth and First to impose episcopacy and other changes on the Kirk. Their religious content...

The poem gives ten lines to humble self-deprecation, in iambic pentameter couplets: a metre which serves to separate this passage from the rest, since the remaining 42 lines, which praise Drummond 's descriptive powers, are...