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Facts

Born c.1476
Died June 10, 1552 • England
Notable Works “The Ship of Fools”

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Alexander Barclay (kneeling), woodcut from the frontispiece of The Mirror of Good Manners, 1523.
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James Montgomery, detail of an engraving, 1855
James Montgomery
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John Banim
Irish author
Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage
British poet, playwright, and novelist
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Christopher Logue
British poet
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Aaron Hill
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Nahum Tate
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Nicholas Brady
British clergyman
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Engraved portrait of Robert Burns, shown from the waist up wearing a dark jacket and cravat, facing slightly to the left.
Robert Burns
Scottish poet
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott
Scottish writer
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Scottish poet Allan Ramsay
Allan Ramsay
Scottish poet
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William Dunbar
Scottish poet
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Douglas Dunn
British writer and critic
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Gawin Douglas
Scottish bishop and poet
Lyndsay, drawing after a woodcut on the title page of Lyndsay's Workes, 1634
Sir David Lyndsay
Scottish poet
Beattie, detail of an engraving by William Ridley after a portrait by an unknown artist
James Beattie
Scottish poet
MacDiarmid
Hugh MacDiarmid
Scottish poet
William Drummond, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
William Drummond
Scottish poet
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Robert Henryson
Scottish author

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