This essay analyses the fifteenth-century Scottish poem The Kingis Quair, exploring its avowed sources and the acknowledgement of literary tradition that takes place towards the end of the poem. By setting the poem in the context of the manuscript anthology in which it appears, the article explores the relation of the poem with the concept of authority, focussing on the envoy of the poem and its explicit appeal to great English poets of the past.
'My maisteris dere': The Acknowledgement of Authority in The Kingis Quair
PETRINA, ALESSANDRA
2006
Abstract
This essay analyses the fifteenth-century Scottish poem The Kingis Quair, exploring its avowed sources and the acknowledgement of literary tradition that takes place towards the end of the poem. By setting the poem in the context of the manuscript anthology in which it appears, the article explores the relation of the poem with the concept of authority, focussing on the envoy of the poem and its explicit appeal to great English poets of the past.
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