Literature of Scotland: The Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 1 Book

Preface     xii
Acknowledgements     xvi
Map of Scotland     xvii
Introduction: renewals, revivals and revisions     1
The beginnings of Scotland: two cultures     9
The Celts     11
The Picts     12
The Gaels     12
A Scottish nation     14
The Wars of Independence     15
The Scots language     18
Latin literature     21
Gaelic literature     22
Literature in Scots in the fourteenth century     26
John Barbour (1320?-95)     27
The fifteenth century: the flowering     32
Andrew of Wyntoun (1350?-1424?)     34
James I (1394-1437)     34
Sir Richard Holland (fl. 1450)     36
Robert Henryson (1435?-1505?)     38
Blind Harry (1450-93)     47
'Anonymous' poets     50
William Dunbar (1460?-1520?)     54
Flyting and the Gaelic influence     59
Walter Kennedy (1460?-1508?)     60
Writing in prose     69
Sir Gilbert Hay (1400?-1499?)     69
John of Ireland (1440-1496?)     70
The sixteenth century: John the Commonweill     71
Andrew Melville (1545-1622)     73
Gavin Douglas (1475?-1522)     75
Sir David Lindsay (1490-1555)     80
The theatre in Scotland     88
Writing in prose     90
John Mair (1467-1550)     90
John Bellenden (1495-1550?)     91
Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie (1532-90?)     93
George Buchanan (1506-82)     93
John Knox (1505-72)     95
James VI (1566-1625)     98
Minor poetry of the Reformation     99
Robert Wedderburn (1510-1557)     99
Robert Sempill (1530-95)     100
George Bannatyne (1545-1608)     101
Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586)     101
Alexander Scott (1525?-1584?)     102
The Castalian band     103
Alexander Hume (1557-1609)     103
Alexander Montgomerie (l555?-97?)     104
Gaelic song and music     108
The MacCrimmons     112
The seventeenth century: crown and Covenant; the ballads     114
Poets at court     119
Sir William Alexander (1577?-1640)     119
Sir Robert Ayton (1569-1638)     119
James Graham (1612-50)      120
William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649)     120
Writing in prose     123
David Hume of Godscroft (1558?-1630)     123
Sir George Mackenzie (1636-91)     124
Sir James Dalrymple (1616-95)     125
Samuel Rutherford (1600-61)     126
Robert Baillie (1599-1662)     126
Witchcraft and superstition     128
Ballads and ballad-collectors     130
The nature of ballads     133
The Scottish ballads     135
Tales of violent history     136
Tales of tragic romance     142
Tales of the other world     144
Robert (1595?-1665?) and Francis Sempill (1616?-82)     147
Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty (1611-60)     149
Gaelic poetry in the late seventeenth century     152
Niall MacMhuirich (1637?-1726)     153
Roderick Morison (1656?-1714?)     153
Mary MacLeod, Mairi Nighean Alasdair Ruaid (1615?-1706?)     155
Cicely MacDonald of Keppoch, Sileas na Ceapaich (1660?-1729?)     156
John MacDonald, 'Iain Lom' (1620?-1707?)     157
Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1655-1716)     159
The eighteenth century: new Athenians and the Doric     161
William Hamilton of Gilbertfield (1665?-1751)     172
Allan Ramsay (1685-1758)     173
Pre-Romantics and others     179
James Thomson (1700-48)     179
Robert Blair (1700?-46)     180
Tobias Smollett (1721-71)     180
William Wilkie (1721-72)     183
John Home (1722-1808)     184
The Scottish Enlightenment     184
Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746)     184
David Hume (1711-76)     186
Thomas Reid (1710-96)     188
James Beattie (1735-1803)     189
Dugald Stewart (1753-1828)     189
Adam Ferguson (1723-1816)     190
William Robertson (1721-93)     190
Sir David Dalrymple (1726-92)     190
Henry Home (1696-1782)     190
James Burnett (1714-99)     191
Adam Smith (1723-90)     191
Romanticism and the cult of feeling     193
James Macpherson (1736-96)     193
Henry Mackenzie (1745-1831)     195
James Boswell (1740-95)     197
Gaelic poetry: a vernacular flowering     198
Alexander MacDonald, Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair (1695?-1770?)     200
John MacCodrum, Iain Mhic Fhearchair (1693?-1779)      205
Robert Mackay, Rob Donn MacAoidh (1714-78)     208
Duguld Buchanan, Dughall Bochanan (1716-68)     212
William Ross, Uilleam Ros (1762-90)     213
Duncan Ban Macintyre, Donnchadh Ban Mac an t-Saoir (1724-1812)     215
Robert Fergusson (1750-74)     222
Robert Bums (1759-96)     226
The nineteenth century: history, industry, sentiment     246
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)     251
John Wilson (1785-1854)     254
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)     255
John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854)     277
Anne Grant of Laggan (1755-1838)     278
Elizabeth Hamilton (1758?-1816)     278
Jane Porter (1776-1850)     279
Mary Brunton (1778-1818)     280
Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)     281
Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus (1797-1885)     282
Mary Somerville (1780-1872)     282
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1782-1854)     282
James Hogg (1770-1835)     284
John Galt (1779-1839)     292
Sentimentalists and spasmodics     296
Carolina Oliphant (1766-1845)     296
Alexander Smith (1830-67)     296
W. E. Aytoun (1813-65)      297
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)     298
Jane Welsh (1801-66)     299
Hugh Millar (1802-56)     303
William Alexander (1826-94)     304
Gaelic literature     305
Revd Norman Macleod (1783-1862)     306
John MacLean, Iain MacIlleathain (1787-1848)     306
Neil MacLeod, Niall MacLeoid (1843-1913)     307
William Livingstone, Uilleam MacDhunleibhe (1808-70)     308
John Smith, Iain Mac a' Ghobhainn (1848-81)     308
Mary Macpherson, Mairi Nic a' Phearsain (1821-98)     310
Margaret Oliphant (1828-97)     311
James Thomson (1834-82)     314
William McGonagall (1825?-1902)     316
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94)     317
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)     330
George MacDonald (1824-1905)     331
Towards the Celtic twilight     334
Andrew Lang (1844-1912)     335
J. G. Frazer (1854-1941)     335
Patrick Geddes (1854-1932)     335
William Sharp, 'Fiona Macleod' (1855-1914)     336
The kailyard     338
Revd William Robertson Nicoll (1851-1923)     339
J. M. Barrie (1860-1937)     340
Revd John Watson, 'Ian MacLaren' (1850-1907)     344
Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1859-1914)     345
The factory yard     345
David Pae (1828-84)     346
Ellen Johnston (1835?-74?)     346
John Davidson (1857-1909)     347
Chronological table     353
Select bibliography and further reading     365
Index     376