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Scottish Poetry

14th Century

• The Brus by John Barbour (c. 1320-1395)

15th Century

• Robert Henryson (c. 1425-1505)

16th Century Renaissance Sonnets

• Montgomerie (c.1545-1597)
• Fowler (1560-1612)
  • Sonnets 1-40
  • Sonnets 41-75
  • Sonnets 76-121

Early 17th Century

• James VI
• William Drummond
• Anonymous

18th-20th Century

• Exerpts from the Poetical Works of Janet Little (1759-1813)
  • Who was Janet Little? - a brief introduction to Janet Little and her works
  • On a Visit to Mr. Burns - a poem from 1791, when he came home with a broken arm.
  • Given to a Lady Who Asked me to Write a Poem - a poem written in 1792
  • Verses - written on a foreigner's visiting the grave of a Swiss gentleman
  • On Halloween - a poem written in 1792
  • Upon a Young Lady's Breaking a Looking Glass
• A Shetland Dialect Poem, Jakobsen by John Graham