Walter Kennedy

Walter Kennedy (born c. 1460—died c. 1508) was a Scottish poet, remembered chiefly for his flyting (Scots dialect: “scolding”) with his professional rival William Dunbar. The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie, in which the two poets alternate in heaping outrageous abuse on one another, is the outstanding example of this favourite sport of the 16th-century Scots poets. Kennedy was the younger brother of John, 2nd Lord Kennedy of Dunure in Ayr, and a descendant of...