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xxviii, 321 pages ; 22 cm A great deal of excellent poetry was composed in Scotland in the first quarter of the seventeenth century. In 1603, when James Stewart became also king of England and Ireland, several Scottish poets moved to London, and commented on events at Court. Others preferred to remain in their homeland, at a distance from the metropolis; and some who had gone south soon returned home. In addition to the perennial themes of love and religion, attention was given to topics such as national identity, foreign travel, civil society, monarchy, the good life, friendship, retreat, and the nature and language of literature itself. Poets faced the political and cultural challenges inherent in the novel concept of Great Britain in a variety of ways, and the thistle and the rose bloomed together in the Jacobean garden of verses Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-317) and index

Author

Alasdair A. MacDonald

Publisher

Association for Scottish Literary Studies

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781906841454

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities