William Dunbar
William Dunbar
William Dunbarwas a Scottish makar poet active in the late fifteenth century and the early sixteenth century. He was closely associated with the court of King James IV and produced a large body of work in Scots distinguished by its great variation in themes and literary styles. He was likely a native of East Lothian, as assumed from a satirical reference in the Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie. His surname is also spelled Dumbar...
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I was in New Orleans during the first of those two. More than half of the town was stripped of its covering, many houses thrown down in town and country,