William Dunbar
Scottish poet and civil servant / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Dunbar (1459 or 1460 – by 1530) was a Scottish makar, or court poet, active in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. He was closely associated with the court of King James IV[1] and produced a large body of work in Scots distinguished by its great variation in themes and literary styles. He was probably a native of East Lothian, as assumed from a satirical reference in The Flyting of Dumbar and Kennedie.[2][3] His surname is also spelt Dumbar.
This article is about the Scottish poet. For other people with the same name, see William Dunbar (disambiguation).