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  • 11Scottish baronial style — The Scottish Baronial style is part of the Gothic revival in architectural styles, drawing on stylistic elements and forms from castles, tower houses and mansions of the Renaissance period in Scotland, such as Craigievar Castle and Newark Castle …

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  • 12Scottish Poetry Library — The Scottish Poetry Library was founded in 1984cite web |url=http://www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/artsinscotland/literature/projects/archive/scottishpoetrylibrary.aspx |title=The Scottish Poetry Library |publisher=Scottish Arts Council… …

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  • 13Poet — A poet is a person who writes poetry. EtymologyFrom the ancient greek : , poieō : I make or compose ; , poïêtes : artisan, creator, maker (also makar), author, poet > Latin : : poet, author > Old French : (1200 1400) or > Used ( poet ) in 14th.… …

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  • 14List of Scottish writers — is an incomplete alphabetical list of Scottish writers. This list includes writers of all genres, writing in English, Scots, Gaelic, Latin, or any other language.This is a subsidiary list to the List of Scots.A*Marion Adams Acton (1846–1928),… …

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  • 15Michael Bruce (poet) — Michael Bruce Born 27 March 1746(1746 03 27) Portmoak, Kinross shire Died 15 July 1767(1767 07 15) (aged 21) Nationality Scottish Occup …

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  • 16Allan Ramsay (poet) — Infobox Writer name = Allan Ramsay caption = Portrait by William Aikman (1682 1731) [Ramsay s friend, Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, owned Aikman s portrait of Ramsay, in imitation of whose verse he had written on the back of the canvas: Here… …

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  • 17John Barbour (poet) — John Barbour (?1320 ndash; March 13, 1395), was a Scottish poet and the first major literary voice to write in Scots, the vernacular language of Lowland Scotland, similar to the position that Chaucer, his slightly later contemporary,… …

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  • 18David Gray (poet) — David Gray (29 January, 1838 – 3 December, 1861) was a Scottish poet. The son of a handloom weaver, Gray was born at Merkland, by Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire. His parents resolved to educate him for the kirk, and through their self denial and… …

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  • 19Alexander Garden (poet) — Alexander Garden or Gardyne (c. 1585 c. 1642) was a Scottish poet from Aberdeenshire. He is believed to have graduated from Marischal College before 1609 when a work of his was published calling him Mr. , implying he had the degree of MA. This… …

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  • 20Alexander Smith (poet) — Alexander Smith (31 December 1830 5 January 1867, 8 January according to Brewer s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable) was a Scottish poet, and labelled as one of the Spasmodic School.Life and worksHe was born in a thatched house in Kilmarnock, in the …

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