Walter Kennedy
Walter Kennedy | |
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Personal details | |
Birth | 1455 |
Died | 1518 |
Eddication | |
Eddication | Glesga University 1476) |
Leids spoken | Middle Scots leid Middle Inglis leid |
Thrift | |
Thrift | poetan screiver |
Notable wirk | The Passioun of Crist (en) |
Genre | Poetry |
Walter Kennedy (ca. 1455 – 1518?) wis a Scots makar associatit wi the Renaissance coort o James IV. He is aiblins maist weel kent as the defendant agin William Dunbar in The Flyting of Dumbar and Kennedie, but his survivin warks clearly shaw him tae hae been an accomplishit "maister" in mony genres.[1] It is likely that a signeeficant body o poetry bi him haes been lost.
His maist impressive survivin poem is The Passioun of Crist.
References
- ↑ Meier, Nicole, ed. The Poems of Walter Kennedy Archived 2012-02-08 at the Wayback Machine, Scottish Text Society, 2008, p. ix