List of Scottish texts
1. Anonymous, ‘Deirdre’s Farewell to Alba’ (and other Celtic stories and songs, including the stories of Cuchulain, Deirdre and Naoise, Finn McCoul and Ossian after the Fianna: written sources are scattered and various)
2. Anieran, The Gododdin
3. Saint Columba (c.520-597), ‘Altus Prosator’
4. Adomnan (c.628-704), Life of Columba
5. Bernard of Arbroath, The Declaration of Arbroath 6. Aonoymous, ‘Quhen Alexander oor King was deid…’
7. John Barbour (c.1320-95), The Bruce
8. James I (1394-1437), The Kingis Quair
9. Blind Harry (1450-93), The Wallace
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Hide Ad10. Robert Henryson (c.1450-c.1505), Poems, esp. ‘The Testament of Cresseid’, ‘Orpheus and Euridices’ and Aesop’s Fables 11. William Dunbar (c.1460-c.1513), Poems, esp. ‘The Thistle and the Rose’, ‘The Twa Marriet Wemen and the Wedo’, ‘The Dance of the Seven Deidly Sins’, ‘Lament for the Makars’
12. Gavin Douglas (c.1476-c.1513), translation of The Aeneid
13. Anonymous, The Tale of Rauf Coilyear
14. Anonymous, The Ballads
15. Anonymous, The Friars of Berwick
16. Anonymous, The Guid and Godlie Ballatis
17. David Lyndsay (1490-1555), Poems, Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaits
18. Anonymous, Philotus
19. George Buchanan (1506-82), Epithalamium for the Dauphin of France and Mary
20. Alexander Scott (c.1515-c.1583), Poems
21. Mary Queen of Scots, Poems
22. Arthur Johnstone, Poems
23. James MacGregor, The Book of the Dean of Lismore
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Hide Ad24. John Stewart of Baldynneis (c.1550-c.1605), Poems, esp. Roland Furious
25. William Fowler (1560-1612), The Tarantula of Love
26. Alexander Montgomerie (c.1555-97), Poems, especially The Cherrie and the Slae, ‘The Solsequium’ and ‘The night is near gone’
27. Mark Alexander Boyd (1563-1601), ‘Cupid and Venus’
28.William Lithgow (c.1582-after 1645), The Totall Discourse of The Rare Adventures & Painefull Peregrinations of long Nineteene Yeares Travayles from Scotland to the most famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Africa
29. William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649), Poems
30. Sir Thomas Urquhart (1611-60), The Jewel, Logopandecteision and the translation of Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
31. Mary MacLeod (c.1615-c.1706), Poems
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Hide Ad32. Iain Lom (c.1620-c.1716), Poems, especially ‘The Day of Inverlochy’, ‘To Mackinnon of Strath’
33. Allan Ramsay, (1685-1758) The Gentle Shepherd, Poems and as editor, The Tea-Table Miscellany and The Ever Green
34. Alasdair MacMhaigstir Alasdair (c.1695-c.1770), Poems, esp. ‘The Birlinn of Clanranald’
35. James Thomson (1700-48), The Seasons and ‘Rule Britannia’ from The Masque of Alfred
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Hide Ad36. David Hume (1711-76), An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, especially ‘On Miracles’
37. Tobias Smollett (1721-71), Roderick Random, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker and the translation of Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
38. Adam Ferguson (1723-1816), An Essay on the History of Civil Society
39. Adam Smith (1723-90), The Wealth of Nations
40. Duncan Ban MacIntyre (1724-1812), Poems, esp. ‘Praise of Ben Dorain’
41. Jean Elliot (1727-1805), ‘The Flowers of the Forest’
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Hide Ad42. James Macpherson (1736-96), The Poems of Ossian with an essay by Hugh Blair
43. James Boswell (1740-95), Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson and The Life of Samuel Johnson
44. Henry Mackenzie (1745-1831), The Man of Feeling
45. John Hume, Douglas
46. Mungo Park, Travels
47. Hamilton of Gilbertfield’s version of Blind Harry’s Wallace
48. Robert Fergusson (1750-74), Poems
49. Robert Burns (1759-96), Poems, Journals and Letters
50. Dugald Buchanan, Poems
51. Joanna Baillie (1762-1851), Plays
52. William Ross (1762-90), Poems, especially ‘Another Song’
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Hide Ad53. Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (1766-1845), Poems and Songs
54. James Hogg (1770-1835), Poems, esp. ‘Bonnie Kilmeny’, The Brownie of Bodsbeck, The Three Perils of Man, The Three Perils of Woman, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
55. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Waverley; or, ‘Tis Sixty Years Since, The Tale of Old Mortality, Rob Roy, The Heart of Mid-Lothian, The Bride of Lammermuir, Ivanhoe, Redgauntlet
56. Jane Porter (1776-1850), The Scottish Chiefs
57. John Galt (1779-1839), Annals of the Parish, The Entail
58. Susan Ferrier (1782-1854), Marriage
59. Lord Byron (1788-1824), Poems
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Hide Ad60. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), ‘Signs of the Times’, Sartor Resartus
61. Elizabeth Grant (1797-1885), Memoirs of a Highland Lady
62. Hugh Miller (1802-56), Old Red Sandstone
63. William Livingstone (1808-70), Poems, especially ‘Ireland Weeping’
64. Mary Macpherson (1828-97), Poems
65. William Alexander, Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk
66. George Macdonald (1824-1905), Phantastes, Lilith
68. Margaret Oliphant (1828-1905), A Beleaguered City, Kirsteen
69. Radical Renfrew, ed. Tom Leonard
70. James Young Geddes, Poems
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Hide Ad71. James (‘B.V.) Thomson (1834-82), The City of Dreadful Night
72. R.L. Stevenson (1850-94), Treasure Island, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, The Master of Ballantrae, Letters, Poems
73. Ian Maclaren (1850-1907), Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush
74. R.B. Cunninghame Graham, Scottish Stories, Thirteen Stories
75. J.G. Frazer (1854-1941), The Golden Bough
76. William Sharp (1855-1905), Pharais
77. John Davidson (1857-1909), Poems. See especially The Testaments
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Hide Ad78. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), The Sherlock Holmes Stories, The Lost World
79. S.R. Crockett (1859-1914), The Raiders
80. Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932), The Wind in the Willows
81. J.M. Barrie (1860-1937), Sentimental Tommy, Tommy and Grizel, Auld Licht Idylls, Peter Pan, Farewell Miss Julie Logan
82. R.M. Ballantyne, The Gorilla Hunters, The Coral Island
83. Neil Munro (1863-1937), The New Road, Para Handy and The Vital Spark
84. Violet Jacob (1863-1946), Flemington, Collected Poems
85. Patrick MacGill, The Rat Pit
86. Charles Murray (1864-1941), Hamewith
87. Marion Angus (1866-1946), Poems
88. Norman Douglas (1868-1952), South Wind
89. George Douglas Brown (1869-1902), The House with the Green Shutters
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Hide Ad90. John Buchan (1875-1940), Prester John, The Thirty-Nine Steps, Witch Wood, A Prince of the Captivity, Sick Heart River
91. David Lindsay (1876-1945), A Voyage to Arcturus
92. Catherine Carswell (1879-1946), Open the Door!
93. John MacDougall Hay (1880-1919), Gillespie
94. Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972), Whisky Galore!
95. Edwin Muir, Poems, Autobiography, Scott and Scotland
96. James Bridie (1888-1951), One Way of Living, The Devil to Stage: Selected Plays
97. Willa Muir (1890-1970), Imagined Corners, Mrs Grundy in Scotland
98. Neil M. Gunn (1891-1973), Highland River, The Silver Darlings
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Hide Ad99. Hugh MacDiarmid (C.M. Grieve, 1892-1978), Poems (see especially Sansgschaw, Penny Wheep, A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, Stony Limits [including ‘On a Raised Beach’ and ‘Lament for the Great Music’] and In Memoriam James Joyce), Lucky Poet: A Self-Study in Literature and Political Ideas, The Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry
100. Nan Shepherd (1893-1981), The Quarry Wood
101. George Blake (1893-1961), The Shipbuilders
102. Joe Corrie (1894-1968), Plays and Poems
103. Edward Gaitens (1897-1966), Dance of the Apprentices
104. Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999), The Bull Calves, Lobsters on the Agenda
105. Guy McCrone (1898-1877), The Wax Fruit Trilogy
106. William Soutar (1898-1943), Collected Poems, Diaries of a Dying Man
107. Eric Linklater (1899-1974), Juan in America, Magnus Merriman, The Merry Muse, A Terrible Freedom
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Hide Ad108. Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell, 1901-35), A Scots Quair: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe, Grey Granite; three short stories (‘Clay’, ‘Smeddum’ and ‘Greenden’), Spartacus, Stained Radiance, Gay Hunter
109. Nancy Brysson Morrison, The Gowk Storm
110. Alexander McArthur and Herbert Kingsley Long, No Mean City
111. James Barke (1905-58), The Land of the Leal
112. Fionn Mac Colla (1906-75), The Albannach, And the Cock Crew
113. Robert McLellan (1907-85), Plays
114. Ian Fleming (1908-64), Goldfinger
115. Robert Garioch (1909-81), Poems
116. George Friel (1910-75), Mr Alfred M.A.
117. Norman MacCaig (1910-96), Poems
118. Sorley MacLean (1911-96), Poems (see especially Dain do Eimhir, The Cuillin, ‘Hallaig’, ‘The Woods of Raasay’ and ‘Screapadal’)
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Hide Ad119. Robin Jenkins (1912-2005), The Changeling, The Cone-Gatherers
120. Gavin Maxwell (1914-69), Ring of Bright Water
121. George Campbell Hay (1915-84), Poems
122. Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915-1975), Poems, especially Under the Eildon Tree, Gowdspink in Reekie and ‘There is a tide’ and the novel (if that’s what to call it), Carotid Cornucopius
123. Jessie Kesson (1916-94), The White Bird Passes
124. Muriel Spark (1918-2006), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
125. W.S. Graham (1918-86), Poems
126. Hamish Henderson (1919-2002), Poems and Songs
127. Edwin Morgan (1920-2010), Poems (see especially The Second Life, From Glasgow to Saturn, The New Divan, Sonnets from Scotland, Virtual and Other Realities, Cathures), Collected Translations
128. Alexander Scott (1920-89), Poems
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Hide Ad129. George Mackay Brown (1921-96), Greenvoe, Magnus, Poems
130. Derick Thomson (b.1921), Poems
131. William Neill (1922-2010), Poems
132. Alastair MacLean (1922-87), Where Eagles Dare 133. Alexander Trocchi (1925-84), Young Adam, Cain’s Book
134. Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006), Poems
135. Archie Hind (1928-2008), The Dear Green Place
136. James Kennaway (1928-68), Tunes of Glory
137. Iain Crichton Smith (1928-98), Consider the Lilies, Poems
138. Bill Douglas (1934-91), The Trilogy (films)
139. Alasdair Gray (b.1934), Lanark
140. John McGrath (1935-2002) and 7:84 Theatre Company, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
141. Stewart Conn (b.1936), Poems
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Hide Ad142. William McIlvanney (b.1936), Docherty, Laidlaw, The Papers of Tony Veitch
143. Donald Campbell (b.1940), Plays
145. John Byrne (b.1940), The Slab Boys, Tutti Frutti
146. Douglas Dunn (b.1942), Poems
147. Aonghas MacNeacaill (b.1942), Poems
148. Sue Glover (b.1943), Bondagers
149. Tom Leonard (b.1944), Intimate Voices
150. Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Collected Poems and Translations
151. James Kelman (b.1946), The Bus Conductor Hines, Kieron Smith, Boy
152. Liz Lochhead (b.1947), The Poems and Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off
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Hide Ad153. Andrew Greig (b.1951), Men on Ice, Surviving Passages, At the Loch of the Green Corrie
154. Angus Peter Campbell (b.1954), Poems
156. Janice Galloway (b.1956), The Trick is to Keep Breathing, Clara
157. Iain Banks (b.1958), The Bridge, The Crow Road
158. Irvine Welsh (b.1958), Trainspotting
159. Meg Bateman (b.1959), Poems
160. Jackie Kay (b.1961), Poems
161. A.L. Kennedy (b.1965), Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains, So I Am Glad