Author:Gavin Douglas

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Gavin Douglas (1474–1522)

See biography. Scottish bishop, makar and translator. Although he had an important political career, it is for his poetry that he is now chiefly remembered. His principal pioneering achievement was the Eneados, a full and faithful vernacular translation of the Aeneid of Virgil and the first successful example of its kind in the British Isles. Other extant poetry includes his King Hart and the Palice of Honour. — Excerpted from Gavin Douglas on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. There are no works on Wikisource by this author. If you'd like to add a new text, please review Help:Adding texts.

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• “Douglas, Gavin,” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John William, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.

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