Dictionary definition: ‘Kingis Quair’

Encyclopedia entry: ‘Kingis Quair’
The Oxford Companion to British History;      335 words ...‘Kingis Quair’. A poem now generally accepted to have been written ... s incarceration, his love for his future queen, and their eventual marriage. This is linked to an allegorical account of the king's journey ...

Encyclopedia entry: Kingis Quair, The
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature;      320 words ...Kingis Quair, The, ‘The King's Book’ , a poem of 379 lines of rhyme-royal written by James I of Scotland while he ...

Encyclopedia entry: The Kingis Quair
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      256 words ...The Kingis Quair see James I , king of Scotland.

Article: Joanna Martin, Kingship and Love in Scottish Poetry, ...
Medium Aevum;  March 22, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... diverse array of Scottish poems from The Kingis Quair to Sir David Lyndsay's Testament of ... be detected in the reception of The Kingis Quair, which initiated the Scots theme of ... The Scots poems accompanying The Kingis Quair offer a 'pessimistic gloss on the amatory ...

Article: Chaucer and Gower: Difference, Mutuality, Exchange.
Medium Aevum;  March 22, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... bird poems determined the development of the genre; Julia Boffey investigates the Chaucerian and Boethian background to The Kingis Quair to suggest how the poem might be received as a |newe thinge'. Even so, this leaves four essays which seek to evade the ...

Article: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and 'The Kinis Quair': A Facsimile ...
The Modern Language Review;  October 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and 'The Kingis Quair': A Facsimile of Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Arch. Selden. B.24. With an introduction by JULIA BOFFEY and A. S. G ...

Dictionary definition: Scottish Chaucerians
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms;      360 words ... ... Makaris briefly pays tribute to Chaucer. Other figures are Gavin Douglas, Sir David Lyndsay, and (if his authorship of The Kingis Quair be accepted) King James I of Scotland. The term unfortunately diverts attention from the genuinely original character of ...