biography
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Lyndsay or Lindsay, Sir David
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pronunciation:
[lindzee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1490–1555)
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| biography:
| Poet, born probably near Cupar, Fife, E Scotland, UK. For two centuries he was the poet of the Scottish people, and his poems were said to have done more for the Reformation in Scotland than all the sermons of Knox. The earliest and most poetic of his writings is the allegorical The Dreme (1528). His most remarkable work was The Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, a dramatic work first performed at Linlithgow in 1540, and revived with great success at the Edinburgh Festivals of 1948 and 1959, and several times thereafter. |
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