Blind Harry—name unknown: wrote the adventures of Sir William Wallace, about 1460.
James I. of Scotland, assassinated at Perth, in 1437. He wrote "The Kings Quhair," (Quire or Book,) describing the progress of his attachment to the daughter of the Earl of Somerset, while a prisoner in England, during the reign of Henry IV.
Thomas Occleve, flourished about 1420. His principal work is in Latin; De Regimine Principum, (concerning the government of princes.)
John Lydgate, flourished about 1430: wrote Masks and Mummeries, and nine books of tragedies translated from Boccaccio.
Robert Henryson, flourished about 1430: Robin and Makyne, a pastoral; and a continuation of Chaucer's Troilus and Creseide, entitled "The Testament of Fair Creseide."
William Dunbar, died about 1520: the greatest of Scottish poets, called "The Chaucer of Scotland." He wrote "The Thistle and the Rose," "The Dance," and "The Golden Targe."
Chapter X.
The Barren Period Between Chaucer and Spenser.
[Greek Literature]. [Invention of Printing]. [Caxton]. [Contemporary History]. [Skelton]. [Wyatt]. [Surrey]. [Sir Thomas More]. [Utopia], and [other Works]. [Other Writers].