About the Author

R. D. S. Jack is Emeritus Professor of Mediaeval and Scottish Literature at the University of Edinburgh. His earlier books include 'Scottish Prose 1550-1700' (1972); 'The Italian Influence on Scottish Literature' (1972); 'Scottish Verse 1560-1660' (1978); 'Alexander Montgomerie' (1985); 'History of Scottish Literature Vol 1' (1988); 'Patterns of Divine Comedy' (1989); 'William Dunbar' (1996); 'The Mercat Anthology of Early Scottish Literature' (2000, with P.A.T. Rozendaal); 'Scotland in Europe' (2006, with Tom Hubbard), and 'Myths and the Mythmaker: A Literary Account of J. M. Barrie's Early Years' (2010).