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	William Dunbar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dunbar's chief allegorical poems are The Goldyn Targe and The Thrissil and the Rois.
		In the Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie, an outstanding specimen of a favourite northern form, analogous to the continental estrif, or tenzone, he and his rival reach a height of scurrility which is certainly without parallel in English literature.
		For the Scottish Literary Renaissance in the mid-20th century, William Dunbar was a touchstone.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Dunbar (1041 words)

	Encyclopedia: William Dunbar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The greater part of Dunbars work is occasionalpersonal and social satire, complaints (in the style familiar in the minor verse of Chaucers English successors), orisons and pieces of a humorous character.
		In the Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie, an outstanding specimen of a favorite northern form, analogous to the continental estrif, or tenzone, he and his rival reach a height of scurrility which is certainly without parallel in English literature.
		His Interlud of the Droichis was himself in difficulties on his post among the bare hills, and was perhaps subjected to pressure from civil authorities, descended from the heights on the 2nd of Septem~er and began to edge towards his right, in order first to confront, and afterwards to surround, his opponent.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/William-Dunbar (1536 words)

	William Dunbar Journals, American Philosophical Society
		Although the Dunbar expedition was originally slated to survey the entire region subtended by the Arkansas and Red River watersheds, friction with the Osage Indians and Spanish colonial officials led Jefferson and Dunbar to curtail the scope to a more manageable foray up the Red River to the Ouachita as far as the Hot Springs.
		Dunbar, William, "Journal of a voyage commencing at St. Catherines landing, on the East bank of the Mississippi, proceeding downwards to the mouth of the Red river, and from thence ascending that river, the Black river and the Washita river, as high as the Hot-Springs in the proximity of the last mentioned river"
		Dunbar, William, "Journal of a Geometrical survey commencing at St. Catherines landing, on the East shore of the Mississippi descending to the mouth of the red river, and from thence ascending that river, the fl river and river of the Washita as high as the Hot Springs in the proximity of the last mentioned river"
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/d/dunbar.htm (1337 words)

	William Dunbar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is assumed from a satirical reference in the, where, too, it is hinted that he was a member of the noble house of Dunbar.
		This strain runs throughout many of the occasional poems, and is not wanting in odd passages in Dunbar's contemporaries; and it has the additional interest of showing a direct historical relationship with the work of later Scottish poets, and chiefly with that of Robert Burns (Celebrated Scottish poet (1759-1796)).
		This poem has the additional interest of showing the antipathy between the "Inglis" speaking inhabitants of the Lothians and the "Scots" or Scottish Gaelic (The Gaelic language of Scotland) -speaking folk of Carrick, in southern Ayrshire, where Walter Kennedy was from.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/W/Wi/William_Dunbar.htm (1046 words)

	BBC - Writing Scotland - Scotland's Languages - William Dunbar
		Dunbar, however, is less than predictable in his courtly role, taking opportunities to criticise the excesses of James’s position as monarch.
		Dunbar’s life as a cleric was fraught, and he often bewails what he sees as his unfair treatment by James IV.
		Dunbar’s poetry is among the greatest in the Scots language.
	www.bbc.co.uk /scotland/arts/writingscotland/learning_journeys/scotlands_languages/william_dunbar (432 words)

	Significant Scots - William Dunbar
		DUNBAR, WILLIAM, "the darling of the Scottish Muses," as he has been termed by Sir Walter Scott, was born about the middle of the fifteenth century.
		Unless Dunbar here meant only to imply his habitual residence in Lothian, and his having consequently contracted its peculiar language, he must be held as acknowledging himself a native of the province.
		The name of William Dunbar is entered in the ancient registers of the university, in 1477, among the Determinantes, or Bachelors of Arts, in St Salvator’s College, a degree which students could not receive till the third year of their attendance.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/other/dunbar_william.htm (1297 words)

	Dunbar, William (c1460-c1520). Poet. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Dunbar was born around 1460, probably in East Lothian, and died after 1513, probably no later than 1522.
		Dunbar was educated at St. Andrews (an experience which no doubt assisted in the broadening of his vocabulary), was a Franciscan novice, travelled in Europe, became a salaried member of the royal household of James IV, and belongs to a group of poets often called the "Scottish Chaucerians".
		But to return to Dunbar, it is known that he accompanied James IV to France and Scandinavia, and was part of a mission to London in December 1501 to arrange the King's marriage to Margaret Tudor, honoured in "The Thrissell and the Rois" (1503).
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~crumey/william_dunbar.html (480 words)

	BBC - Writing Scotland - Scotland's Languages - William Dunbar - Works
		William Dunbar, like Robert Henryson, belongs to the group of medieval Scots poets known as the ‘makars’, and he repeatedly refers to his composition as an act of ‘making’.
		Dunbar’s place as a court poet greatly influences his work, both in terms of what he is able to say and what is left unsaid.
		Dunbar’s heraldic poem is an allegory of the marriage between countries traditionally seen as enemies.
	www.bbc.co.uk /scotland/arts/writingscotland/learning_journeys/scotlands_languages/william_dunbar/works.shtml (701 words)

	ScotsteXt! Roughs
		Dunbar did not hold that "A man's a man for a' that." That the poet was a native of Lothian might be to hazarded even without his own solitary ambiguous reference to that district in _The Flyting_.
		Dunbar's pension figures in the _Accounts_ down to i4th May, 1513, but from 8th August of that year to June 1515 there is a gap in the Register and, when the accounts start again, there is no entry of the pension.
		Dunbar's poem on the subject opens in the conventional dream-form, and it is significant that the place is within a cloister of the friars, after which no harrowing feature of the tragedy is overlooked.
	www.scotstext.org /roughs/william_dunbar/william_dunbar.asp (17482 words)

	SLAINTE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dunbar is famed for his virtuosity, and was ready to write on almost any subject, from a painful headache to a highly technical treatise on penance.
		Although Dunbar is not a profoundly autobiographical poet, his most intimate-sounding voice is heard in the petitions, a small group of verse epistles, addressed chiefly to the King.
		Dunbar is not a learned or intellectual writer, but he is the most brilliant of the early Scottish poets.
	www.slainte.org.uk /scotauth/dunbadsw.htm (1016 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: DUNBAR, WILLIAM
		William Dunbar, plantation owner, scientist, and explorer, son of Sir Archibald and Anne (Bayne) Dunbar, was born in Morayshire, Scotland, about 1750.
		Dunbar invented a screw press and with its use introduced square cotton bales as a means of packing cotton.
		Dunbar became the first man to give a scientific report of the hot springs, and his journal of the exploration was later published in Documents Relating to the Purchase and Exploration of Louisiana (1904).
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/DD/fdu14.html (492 words)

	Beers: Dunbar p. 1158 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		WILLIAM DUNBAR is an esteemed citizen of Robinson township, who is rapidly converting the products of the soil into a golden harvest, the reward of patient, industrious toil.
		Thomas Dunbar was born February 12, 1805, in Washington county, and in 1833 was married to Mary Scott, who was born in 1817 in the same county.
		Thomas Dunbar cared little for political life, but was actively interested in public improvements and church affairs, to which he contributed liberally and with his wife was a devoted member of the Raccoon Presbyterian Church.
	www.chartiers.com /beers-project/articles/dunbar-1158.html (380 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		INTRODUCTION Biographical Note William Dunbar (1749-1810) was a Scotsman who came to America in 1771 and engaged in Indian trade in the vicinity of Fort Pitt, Pa., for about two years.
		Dunbar Rowland.) Dunbar was a younger son of Sir Archibald Dunbar of Scotland.
		Dunbar's diary (not part of this collection) shows that "A. Ross" was his frequent visitor and that they did a great deal of business together.
	www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/d/Dunbar,William (993 words)

	§8. William Dunbar. X. The Scottish Chaucerians. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of ...
		William Dunbar has held the place of honour among the Scottish “makars.” It may be that his reputation has been exaggerated at the expense of his contemporaries, who (for reasons now less valid) have not received like critical attention.
		Of the personal history of William Dunbar, we have only a few facts; and of the dates of his writings or of their sequence we know too little to convince us that any account of his literary life is more than ingenious speculation.
		As Dunbar appears to have graduated bachelor of arts at St. Andrews in 1477, his birth may be dated about 1460.
	www.bartleby.com /212/1008.html (800 words)

	William Dunbar: The Complete Works: Introduction
		Dunbar belongs to a significant group of late-medieval Scottish poets who are generally known as the Middle Scots Poets or the Scottish Makars, a group that includes the author of The Kingis Quair (possibly James I of Scotland), Richard Holland, Robert Henryson, Gavin Douglas, and Sir David Lindsay.
		Dunbar, moreover, may lay claim to being the finest lyric poet writing in English in the century and a half between the death of Chaucer in 1400 and the appearance of Tottel's Miscellany in 1557.
		Dunbar's canon also includes allegorical poems and dream visions, poems that celebrate or critique or repudiate courtly love, laudatory poems and panegyrics, poems of vituperation and invective, and precatory poems (poems of request, or petition poems) addressed to the king or queen.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/teams/dunint.htm (7528 words)

	William Dunbar
		William Dunbar was a different kind of poet altogether from Robert Henryson.
		He was closely connected to the court of King James IV and many of his poems are addressed to the king and queen, refer to topical events, places and people and celebrate special occasions like the king's marriage, the Thrissill and the Rois.
		Dunbar does not paint a flattering picture of these three women, but the characters are very convincingly drawn, and that makes the satire doubly effective.
	www2.arts.gla.ac.uk /SESLL/STELLA/STARN/crit/NORTHERN/Dunbar.htm (868 words)

	William Dunbar
		The motif of the former is the poet's futile endeavor, in a dream, to ward off the arrows of Dame Beautee by Reason's "scheld of gold." When wounded and made prisoner, he discovers the true beauty of the lady: when she leaves him, he is handed over to Heaviness.
		The Thrissil and the Rois is a prothalamium in honor of James IV and Margaret Tudor, in which the heraldic allegory is based on the familiar beast-parliament.
		The greater part of Dunbar's work is occasional -- personal and social satire, complaints (in the style familiar in the minor verse of Chaucer's English successors), orisons and pieces of a humorous character.
	www.nndb.com /people/401/000104089 (1039 words)

	Robert Burns Country: The Burns Encyclopedia: Dunbar, William (d. 1807)
		The third son of Alexander Dunbar of Boath, Nairnshire, who claimed descent from the tenth Earl of Dunbar, through Lady Agnes Randolph, his wife.
		William Dunbar was a Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh, and 'Colonel' of the Crochallan Fencibles, a convivial club which he helped to found, each of whose members assumed a military title.
		Several letters passed between Burns and Dunbar, from which it may be inferred that the lawyer wrote less frequently than Burns hoped he might.
	www.robertburns.org /encyclopedia/DunbarWilliamd1807.310.shtml (678 words)

	ipedia.com: William Dunbar Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Dunbar, Scottish poet, was probably a native of East Lothian.
		This is assumed from a satirical reference in the Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie, where, too, it is hinted that he was a member of...
		This poem has the additional interest of showing the racial antipathy between the "Inglis" speaking inhabitants of the Lothians and the "Scots" or Gaelic-speaking folk of the west country.
	www.ipedia.com /william_dunbar.html (1005 words)

	AllRefer.com - William Dunbar, Scottish poet (English Literature To 1499, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Dunbar, Scottish poet, English Literature To 1499, Biographies
		By 1491 he seems to have been connected with the court of James IV as a poet and minor diplomat.
		Writing in the traditions of Chaucer and the medieval Scottish poets, Dunbar is notable for the liveliness of his verse, his virtuosity in metrical form, his variety of mood, and his caustic satire.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/DunbarWSco.html (348 words)

	AHQ: William Dunbar, History Maker; 332.
		Dunbar to write 'I shall endeavor to indemnify myself for the cost by making cotton-seed oil.' This gave rise to another great industry, amounting in the cotton growing states to nearly $30,000,000 each year.
		For almost a hundred years the Dunbar report on the Arkansas excursion, usually titled "Journal of a Voyage", lay yellowing in the archives of the American Philosophical Society.
		Dunbar Rowland), historian of the Mississippi Society of the Colonial Dames of America, has written extensively of the distinguished explorer-scientist-planter-inventor, much of her material being released through the Press of the Mississippi Historical Society (4).
	peace.saumag.edu /swark/articles/ahq/southwest_arkansas/dunbar/dunbar332.html (349 words)

	William Dunbar -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A versatile Middle Scots poet attached to the court of James IV, William Dunbar was the dominant figure among the courtly poets known as the Scottish Chaucerians in the golden age of Scottish poetry.
		The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie, in which the two poets alternate in heaping outrageous abuse on one another, is the outstanding example of this favourite sport of the 16th-century Scots poets.
		He was at ease in hymn and satire, morality and obscene comedy, panegyric and begging complaint, elegy and lampoon, and he moved freely from one to another for...
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9321923 (730 words)

	Dunbar
		Dunbar Castle was held by “Black Agnes,” countess of Dunbar, against a six-week siege by the English in 1338.
		William DUNBAR - DUNBAR, William (1805—1861) DUNBAR, William, a Representative from Louisiana; born in...
		William Dunbar, Scottish poet - Dunbar, William, c.1460–c.1520, Scottish poet.
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	Will of William Dunbar
		Dunbar, James C. Dunbar and Sarah C. Dunbar one hundred acres of land on the Dunbar Canal.
		Dunbar my lawful executor to all intents and purposes to execute this my last will and testament according to the true intent and meaning of the same.
		Squyans, J M Skittletharp and Danl B Squyans as subscribing witnesses to the same is exhibited in court for Probate:- and the due execution of the same by the said William Dunbar is proven by the oath and examination of the said C.
	patriot.net /~cpbarnes/DNBR1881.HTM (644 words)

	VPP \| Board: William Dunbar
		Earlier, Dunbar was a portfolio manager at Allied Capital, a $700 million firm providing venture capital and private equity, and was president of Allied Capital Corporation II, a $107 million publicly-traded private equity fund.
		Dunbar also held positions in LBO Lending at Chase Manhattan Bank and in technology operations at NationsBank.
		Dunbar has an MBA from Harvard University and a BA from Davidson College and resides with his wife and three children in Alexandria, Virginia.
	www.venturephilanthropypartners.org /about/people/bbios/dunbar.html (228 words)

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