RPO -- Selected Poetry of Gavin Douglas (1475?-1522)

Selected Poetry of Gavin Douglas (1475?-1522)

from Representative Poetry On-line
Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto
from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967.
RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire
A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries
© 2011, Ian Lancashire for the Department of English, University of Toronto

Index to poems

The Aeneid (excerpt)

Biographical information

Given name: Gavin
Family name: Douglas
Birth date: 1475?
Death date: September 1522
Nationality: Scottish
Family relations
father: Archibald fifth earl of Angus
Languages
English
Latin
Greek
Education
St. Andrew's: 1489 to 1494
University of Paris
Religion: Roman Catholic
Literary movement: Scottish Chaucerians
Literary period: Middle English
Occupation: Bishop
Residences
East Lothian
Forfar
Lanark
Perth
Prestonkirk, Dunbar
Monymusk, Aberdeenshire: 1496
St. Giles, Edinburgh: 1501
Dunkeld: 1516
Cause of death: Plague
Buried at: Savoy Chapel Churchyard, London, Greater London
First RPO edition: 1996-2000