Author: Montgomerie, Alexander; James Cranstoun (editor.)
Title: The Poems of Alexander Montgomerie
Description: Scottish Text Society, Edinburgh, 1887. First Edition, Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. printed for the Society by W. Blackwood and Sons & rebound in dark blue cloth with a 45-page introduction & contents list to the front & a large section of notes to the poems to the rear. Alexander Montgomerie (c. 1550–1598) was a Scottish Jacobean courtier and poet, or makar, born in Ayrshire. He was one of the principal members of the Castalian Band, a circle of poets in the court of James VI in the 1580s which included the king himself. Montgomerie was for a time in favour as one of the king's "favourites". He was a Catholic in a largely Protestant court and his involvement in political controversy led to his expulsion as an outlaw in the mid-1590s. Montgomerie's poetry, much of which examines themes of love, includes autobiographical sonnets and foreshadows the later metaphysical poets in England. He is sometimes, by tradition, given the epithet "Captain". First Thus. Size: Large Octavo. 57 + 432 pages. Text is in Scots. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Gilt titles spine. Includes glossary. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Poetry; Scottish Poetry; Sixteenth Century Poetry; Scottish Literature; Scotland; Renaissance 16thc to 17thc; Scots Language; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 3920.

Keywords: BZDB227 Poetry/Scottish Poetry/Jacobean Poets/Castalian Band/Sixteenth Century Poetry/Scottish Literature/Literature/Literary/Scotland Poetry; Scottish Poetry; Sixteenth Century Poetry; Scottish Literature; Scotland; Renaissance 16thc to 17thc; Scots Lan


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