Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry

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The Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry was edited by Hugh MacDiarmid, and published in 1940. From the introduction:

The difference … between this anthology and all previous anthologies of Scottish poetry — is that some little effort has been made to present an "all-in view" of Scottish poetry and in particular to give some little representation to its Gaelic and Latin elements.

It contained a number of ballads, and other anonymous verse. The introduction also makes the case for Lallans as a poetic language, contra Edwin Muir.

[edit] Poets included in The Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry

Douglas Ainslie - Marion Angus - John Barbour - Patrick Birnie - Mark Alexander Boyd - Dugald Buchanan - George Buchanan - Robert Burns - Thomas Campbell - Helen B. Cruikshank - John Davidson - Gavin Douglas - William Drummond of Hawthornden - William Dunbar - Jean Elliot - Robert Fergusson - William Fowler - Robert Graham of Gartmore - Alexander Gray - Henry the Minstrel - Robert Henryson - James Hogg - Violet Jacob - James I of Scotland - Arthur Johnstone - Andrew Lang - Lady Anne Lindsay - William Livingston - Iain Lom - Sir David Lyndsay - Hugh Macdiarmid - Alexander MacDonald - Ronald Campbell Macfie - James Pittendrigh Macgillivray - Duncan Ban MacIntyre - A. D. Mackie - Alexander Mair - Sir Richard Maitland - Alexander Montgomerie - James Graham, Marquis of Montrose - Charles Murray - Will H. Ogilvie - David Rorie - William Ross - Alexander Scott - Sir Walter Scott - Donald Sinclair - John Skinner - Alexander Smith - William Soutar - Robert Louis Stevenson - Muriel Stuart - Rachel Annand Taylor - James Thomson ('B.V.')

[edit] See also

• Scottish literature