"This is a careful study that attempts to set the literary construction of late medieval Scottish and English court poetry in the context of European humanism." --Parergon - Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Introduction; Part I. Beginnings: 1. Dunbar's aureate allegories and André's Vita Henrici Septimi; 2. The Bowge of Courte and the birth of the paranoid subject; 3. 'My panefull purs so priclis me': the rhetoric of the self in Dunbar's petitionary poems; Part II. Translative Senses: 4. Alexander Barclay's eclogues and Gavin Douglas's Palice of Honour; 5. Mémoires d'outre-tombe: love, rhetoric and Stephen Hawes; 6. Mapping Skelton: 'Esebon, Marybon, Wheston next Barnet'; 7. Conclusion.