David Lindsay
David Lindsay - A Famous Scottish Poet
David Lindsay (c. 1490 - 1555) He was the last of the line of great poets - including Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gavin Douglas - who raised Scottish literature to distinction at the end of the Middle Ages. Most of his work was satirical, the Church and social justice being his main targets. He attacked pitilessly, vigorously and on occassion obscenely, but he was a reformer both social and religious, and his ideas were those of a 'new man'. His morality play, Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Three Estaits, was produced in 1540 before his patron, King James V. His other works included The Dreme (1528), The Compleynt to the King (1529), and The Monarchie (1554). He was a friend of John Knox, and occupied the lofty office of Lyon king-of-arms from 1529.
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