biography
pronunciation:
[duhnbah(r)]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1460–c.1520)
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| biography:
| Poet, probably born in East Lothian, E Scotland, UK. He studied at St Andrews, is believed to have become a Franciscan novice, and travelled widely, before leaving the order and entering the diplomatic service. He was a courtier of James IV, who gave him a pension in 1500. He is the best known of the makaris (Scottish ‘maker’ or ‘poet’), a group of Scottish courtly poets who flourished c.1425–1550. His poems include The Thrissil and the Rois and Lament for the Makaris, and several satires, such as The Dance of the Sevin Deadly Synnis. His name disappears from the records after 1513. |
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