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Also Known As Sir David Lindsay
Born c.1490
Died Before April 18, 1555
Notable Works “An Answer quhilk Schir David Lyndsay maid to the Kingis Flyting” • “Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaits” • “Testament and Complaynt of Our Soverane Lordis Papyngo” • “The Dreme”
Movement / Style makar

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Lyndsay, drawing after a woodcut on the title page of Lyndsay's Workes, 1634
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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
Joanna Baillie, engraving by H. Robinson after a portrait by Sir William Newton
Joanna Baillie
British author
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William Dunbar
Scottish poet
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
British poet
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
John Gay, oil painting by William Aikman; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
John Gay
British author
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Thomas Lodge
English writer
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John Marston
British dramatist
George Gascoigne
George Gascoigne
English poet
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Richard Savage
English writer
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James Crerar Reaney
Canadian writer
Barrie, 1893
J.M. Barrie
Scottish author
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Alasdair Gray
Scottish novelist, playwright, and artist
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William Edmondstoune Aytoun
Scottish poet
John Davidson, crayon drawing by Walter Sickert; in the British Museum
John Davidson
Scottish poet
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John Home
English dramatist
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James Bridie
Scottish playwright
Josephine Tey, 1934
Josephine Tey
Scottish author
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Gawin Douglas
Scottish bishop and poet

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