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R. D. S. Jack, ed.
The History of Scottish Literature: Volume 1, Origins to 1660.
Aberdeen U.P., 1989 (previously issued 1988).
Series: History of Scottish Literature.
ISBN 0080377254;
ISBN-13: 9780080377254.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: University Press, Aberdeen.
148x226x16pp.
Page count: xi,310pp.
Main language: English; quotations from Scots given with a few glosses; from other languages generally (not always) with a following translation.
Overall condition good: the covers on this copy are a bit grubby and scuffed; covers and pages somewhat yellowed with age; the spine is slightly wrinkled from manufacture, but not creased from reading, and the text appears to be free of marking. 

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Weight without packaging: 529g.

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Contents:
Agutter, Middle Scots as a literary language;
McDiarmid, Metrical chronicles & non‑alliterative romances;
Riddy, Alliterative revival;
MacQueen, Poetry — James I to Henryson;
Bawcutt, William Dunbar & Gavin Douglas;
MacDonald, Religious poetry in Middle Scots;
Kratzmann, 16th‑c. secular poetry;
Jack, Poetry under King James VI;
Spiller, Poetry after the Union 1603-1660;
Lyall, Vernacular prose before the Reformation;
Reid, Prose after Knox;
Carpenter, Early Scottish drama;
Macqueen, Scottish Latin poetry;
MacQueen & MacQueen, Latin prose literature;
Gillies, Gaelic — the classical tradition;
Henderson, The ballad & popular tradition.

Notes: at end of each chapter
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: further reading given at end of each chapter
Index: yes

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