Walter Kennedy (poet)
Walter Kennedy (around 1460; † around 1508) was a Scottish poet of the Renaissance and was counted among the Makars .
He came from Clan Kennedy in Dunure , South Ayrshire , and was the younger brother of Clan Chief John Kennedy, 2nd Lord Kennedy of Dunure. As a member of the clan, he also had good contacts with the court in Edinburgh . He came from a region of the Lowlands strongly influenced by Gaelic, was landowner in Carrick and Galloway and was a clergyman (Rector in Douglas , South Lanarkshire , and canon of Glasgow Cathedral ). Kennedy studied from 1475 at the University of Glasgow with a Magister Artium in 1478.
He fought a literary duel (Flyting) with William Dunbar , which also played a role that he was Gaelic-speaking, which Dunbar looked down as backward (as Schry, Irish, referred to). In his Lament of the Makaris (around 1505) by Dunbar, he is described as about to die, but there is no other indication that this was true.
Six of his poems have survived, besides The Flyting, a longer Passion of Christ (The Passion of Crist) and short poems: Praise of Aige (Praise of Age), Ane Ballat in Praise of Our Lady , Pious Counsale , Ane Agit Manis Invective against Mouth Thankless . The poems are all in Central Scottish, his Gaelic poems have not survived.
literature
- Nicole Meyer (Ed.): The poems of Walter Kennedy, Scottish Text Society 2008
Older editions are by Jakob Schipper in the memoranda of the Vienna Academy of Sciences (Volume 48, 1902) and by David Laing in the appendix to his edition of the works of William Dunbar (1834).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ So the life data of the Encyclopedia Britannica 1911
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kennedy, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1460 |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1508 |