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Makar, the Glossary

A makar is a term from Scottish literature for a poet or bard, often thought of as a royal court poet.^[1]

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Aberdeen

Aberdeen (Aiberdeen,; Obar Dheathain; Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous Scottish city.

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Alan Spence

Alan Spence (born 1947) is a Scottish writer and is Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Aberdeen, where he is also artistic director of the annual WORD Festival.

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Alexander Montgomerie (Scottish Gaelic: Alasdair Mac Gumaraid) (c. 1550?–1598) was a Scottish Jacobean courtier and poet, or makar, born in Ayrshire. Makar and Alexander Montgomerie are Middle Scots poets and Scots Makars.

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Alexander Scott (16th-century poet)

Alexander Scott (Scots: Sanderris Scott: 1520?1582/1583) was a Scottish Court poet. Makar and Alexander Scott (16th-century poet) are Middle Scots poets and Scots Makars.

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Allan Ramsay (poet)

Allan Ramsay (15 October 16867 January 1758) was a Scottish poet (or makar), playwright, publisher, librarian and impresario of early Enlightenment Edinburgh. Makar and Allan Ramsay (poet) are Scots Makars.

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Alliteration

Alliteration is the repetition of syllable-initial consonant sounds between nearby words, or of syllable-initial vowels, if the syllables in question do not start with a consonant.

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Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

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Andrew of Wyntoun

Andrew Wyntoun, known as Andrew of Wyntoun, was a Scottish poet, a canon and prior of Loch Leven on St Serf's Inch and, later, a canon of St. Andrews.

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Anglo-Frisian languages

The Anglo-Frisian languages are the Anglic (English, Scots, Fingallian†, and Yola†) and Frisian (North Frisian, East Frisian, and West Frisian) varieties of the West Germanic languages.

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Aureation

Aureation ("to make golden", from aureus) is a device in arts of rhetoric that involves the "gilding" (or supposed heightening) of diction in one language by the introduction of terms from another, typically a classical language considered to be more prestigious.

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Bard

In Celtic cultures, a bard is a professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.

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Blind Harry

Blind Harry (1440 – 1492), also known as Harry, Hary or Henry the Minstrel, is renowned as the author of The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace, more commonly known as The Wallace. Makar and Blind Harry are Middle Scots poets.

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Calque

In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation.

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Castalian Band

The Castalian Band is a modern name given to a grouping of Scottish Jacobean poets, or makars, which is said to have flourished between the 1580s and early 1590s in the court of James VI and consciously modelled on the French example of the Pléiade. Makar and Castalian Band are Middle Scots poets, Scots Makars, Scottish literary movements and Scottish poetry.

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Chivalric romance

As a literary genre, the chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the noble courts of high medieval and early modern Europe.

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Christine De Luca

Christine De Luca (born 4 April 1947) is a Scottish poet and writer from Shetland, who writes in both English and Shetland dialect.

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Christine Orr

Christine Grant Millar Orr (18991963) was a Scottish novelist, playwright, poet, actor, theatre director and broadcaster.

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Chronicle

A chronicle (chronica, from Greek χρονικά chroniká, from χρόνος, chrónos – "time") is a historical account of events arranged in chronological order, as in a timeline.

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Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (– September 14, 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and widely known and often referred to in English mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher.

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David Lyndsay

Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount (c. 1486 – c. 1555; surname sometimes transcribed as Lindsay) was a Scottish knight, poet, and herald who gained the highest heraldic office of Lyon King of Arms. Makar and David Lyndsay are Middle Scots poets and Scots Makars.

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Dundee

Dundee (Dundee; Dùn Dè or Dùn Dèagh) is the fourth-largest city in Scotland.

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Dunfermline

Dunfermline (Dunfaurlin, Dùn Phàrlain) is a city, parish, former Royal burgh in Fife, Scotland, from the northern shore of the Firth of Forth.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Edwin Morgan (poet)

Edwin George Morgan (27 April 1920 – 19 August 2010), The Independent. Makar and Edwin Morgan (poet) are Scots Makars.

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Eneados

The Eneados is a translation into Middle Scots of Virgil's Latin Aeneid, completed by the poet and clergyman Gavin Douglas in 1513.

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Epic poetry

An epic poem, or simply an epic, is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants.

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Gavin Douglas

Gavin Douglas (c. 1474 – September 1522) was a Scottish bishop, makar and translator. Makar and Gavin Douglas are Middle Scots poets and Scots Makars.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (– 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales.

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George Campbell Hay

George Campbell Hay (1915–1984) was a Scottish Symbolist poet and translator, who wrote in Scottish Gaelic, Scots and English. Makar and George Campbell Hay are Scots Makars.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Hannah Lavery

Hannah Lavery (born 1977) is a Scottish short story writer, poet, playwright and performer.

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House of Stuart

The House of Stuart, originally spelled Stewart, was a royal house of Scotland, England, Ireland and later Great Britain.

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Jackie Kay

Jacqueline Margaret Kay, (born 9 November 1961), is a Scottish poet, playwright, and novelist, known for her works Other Lovers (1993), Trumpet (1998) and Red Dust Road (2011). Makar and Jackie Kay are Scots Makars.

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James I of Scotland

James I (late July 1394 – 21 February 1437) was King of Scots from 1406 until his assassination in 1437. Makar and James I of Scotland are Scots Makars.

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James IV of Scotland

James IV (17 March 1473 – 9 September 1513) was King of Scotland from 11 June 1488 until his death at the Battle of Flodden in 1513.

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James VI and I

James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.

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John Barbour (poet)

John Barbour (c.1320 – 13 March 1395) was a Scottish poet and the first major named literary figure to write in Scots. Makar and John Barbour (poet) are Scots Makars.

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John Berryman

John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar.

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John Gower

John Gower (c. 1330 – October 1408) was an English poet, a contemporary of William Langland and the Pearl Poet, and a personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer.

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John Lydgate

John Lydgate of Bury was an English monk and poet, born in Lidgate, near Haverhill, Suffolk, England.

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Kathleen Jamie

Kathleen Jamie FRSL (born 13 May 1962) is a Scottish poet and essayist.

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Lament for the Makaris

"I that in Heill wes and Gladnes", also known as "The Lament for the Makaris", is a poem in the form of a danse macabre by the Scottish poet William Dunbar.

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Literary genre

A literary genre is a category of literature.

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Liz Lochhead

Liz Lochhead Hon FRSE (born 26 December 1947) is a Scottish poet, playwright, translator and broadcaster. Makar and Liz Lochhead are Scots Makars.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Magi Gibson

Magi Gibson (1953) is a Scottish poet and children's author.

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Makar (National Poet for Scotland)

The Makar or National Poet for Scotland is the national poet laureate of Scotland.

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Makars' Court

Makars' Court is a courtyard in central Edinburgh, Scotland. Makar and Makars' Court are Scots Makars.

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Metre (poetry)

In poetry, metre (Commonwealth spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.

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Middle Scots

Middle Scots was the Anglic language of Lowland Scotland in the period from 1450 to 1700. Makar and Middle Scots are Scots language.

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National poet

A national poet or national bard is a poet held by tradition and popular acclaim to represent the identity, beliefs and principles of a particular national culture.

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Norman MacCaig

Norman Alexander MacCaig DLitt (14 November 1910 – 23 January 1996) was a Scottish poet and teacher.

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Northern Renaissance

The Northern Renaissance was the Renaissance that occurred in Europe north of the Alps.

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Petrarch

Francis Petrarch (20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374; Franciscus Petrarcha; modern Francesco Petrarca), born Francesco di Petracco, was a scholar from Arezzo and poet of the early Italian Renaissance and one of the earliest humanists.

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Poet

A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry.

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Poet laureate

A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions.

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Poetic diction

Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry.

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Richard Holland

Richard Holland or Richard de Holande (died in or after 1483) was a Scottish cleric and poet, author of the Buke of the Howlat. Makar and Richard Holland are Middle Scots poets and Scots Makars.

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Robert Burns

Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. Makar and Robert Burns are Scots Makars.

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Robert Fergusson

Robert Fergusson (5 September 1750 – 17 October 1774) was a Scottish poet. Makar and Robert Fergusson are Scots Makars.

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Robert Garioch

Robert Garioch Sutherland (9 May 1909 – 26 April 1981) was a Scottish poet and translator. Makar and Robert Garioch are Scots Makars.

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Robert Henryson

Robert Henryson (Middle Scots: Robert Henrysoun) was a poet who flourished in Scotland in the period c. 1460–1500. Makar and Robert Henryson are Middle Scots poets and Scots Makars.

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Ron Butlin

Ron Butlin (born 1949 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish poet and novelist who was Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate) from 2008 to 2014.

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Royal court

A royal court, often called simply a court when the royal context is clear, is an extended royal household in a monarchy, including all those who regularly attend on a monarch, or another central figure.

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Scansion

Scansion (rhymes with mansion; verb: to scan), or a system of scansion, is the method or practice of determining and (usually) graphically representing the metrical pattern of a line of verse.

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Scop

A scop was a poet as represented in Old English poetry.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Scots language

ScotsThe endonym for Scots is Scots.

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Scottish literature

Scottish literature is literature written in Scotland or by Scottish writers.

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Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Parliament (Pàrlamaid na h-Alba; Scots Pairlament) is the devolved, unicameral legislature of Scotland.

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Scottish Poetry Library

The Scottish Poetry Library is a public library specialising in Scottish poetry. Makar and Scottish Poetry Library are Scottish poetry.

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Sheena Blackhall

Sheena Blackhall is a Scottish poet, novelist, short story writer, illustrator, traditional story teller and singer.

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Some Reulis and Cautelis to Be Observit and Eschewit in Scottis Poesie

Ane Schort Treatise conteining some Reulis and Cautelis to be observit and eschewit in Scottis poesie (1584) is the full title of a work of non-fiction prose in Scots, also called The Essayes of a Prentise in the Divine Art of Poesie, written by the 19-year-old James VI of Scotland (later also James I of England) and first published in Edinburgh.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makar

Also known as Edinburgh Makar, Makars, Poet Laureate of Scotland, Scots Makar, Scottish Chaucerian, Scottish Chaucerians, Scottish Makar, Scottish Makars, The Makar, The Scots Makar, The makars.

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See also

Middle Scots poets

Scots Makars

Scottish literary movements

Scottish poetry

References