Scottish Writers (1)

Picked up a book in the library the other day "Discovering Scottish Writers" (ed Alan Reid & Brian Osborne). I've split the long list into sections, and this is the first, pre-Walter Scott list, in chronological order.

• John Barbour (Poet)
• Robert Henryson (Poet)
• William Dunbar (Poet)
• Gavin Douglas (Poet)
• Sir David Lindsay (Poet & Playwright)
• Alexander Scott (Poet)
• William Drummond (Poet)
• Sir Thomas Urquhart (Man of letters & Translator)
• Allan Ramsay (Poet)
• Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair (Poet)
• James Thomson (Dramatist & Poet)
• Tobias George Smollett (Novelist)
• John Home (Dramatist)
• Duncan Ban Macintyre (Poet)
• James Macpherson (Poet & Translator)
• James Boswell (Biographer, Diarist & Travel writer)
• Henry Mackenzie (Novelist & Essayist)
• Robert Fergusson (Poet)
• Robert Burns (Poet)
• Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (Poet)
• James Hogg (Novelist & Poet)

I hope to get some culture along the Southern Upland Way. There's a deep heritage before Scott and Burns.