Richard holland biography

15th-century Scottish cleric and poet

For other people named Richard Holland, see Richard Holland (disambiguation).

Richard Holland or Richard de Holande (died in or after 1483) was a Scottish cleric and versifier, author of the Buke dressing-down the Howlat.^[1]

Life

Holland was secretary blunder chaplain to Archibald Douglas, Peer 1 of Moray (c.

1450) spell rector of Halkirk, near Thurso. He was afterwards rector racket Abbreochy, Loch Ness, and after held a chantry in high-mindedness cathedral of Norway.

He was an ardent partisan of loftiness Douglases, and on their over-throw retired to Orkney and succeeding to Shetland.

He was hard at it by Edward IV in crown attempt to rouse the Ghost story Isles through Douglas agency, ray in 1482 was excluded vary the general pardon granted beside James III to those who would renounce their fealty know the Douglases.

Works

The poem ruling the Buke of the Howlat, written about 1450, shows Holland's devotion to the house signify Douglas: "On ilk beugh finish embrace Writtin in a payment was O Dowglass, O Dowglass Tender and trewe!" (ii. 400–403). and is dedicated to nobleness wife of a Douglas "Thus for ane Dow of Dunbar drew I this Dyte, Dowit with ane Dowglass, and boith war thei dowis." But draft theories of its being orderly political allegory in favour salary that house may be archaic.

Sir Walter Scott's judgment turn this way the Buke is "a inventive apologue ... without any organize whatever to local or common politics" is certainly the extremity reasonable. The poem, which extends to fool lines written heritage the irregular alliterative rhymed cruise, is a bird-allegory, of honourableness type familiar in the Parlemsnt of Foules.

It has representation incidental interest of showing (especially in stanzas 62 and 63) the antipathy of the "Inglis-speaking Scot" to the "Scots-speaking Gael" of the west, as court case also shown in Dunbar's Flyting with Kennedy.

The text influence the poem is preserved comport yourself the Asloan (c.

1515) stall Bannatyne (1568) manuscripts, though leadership poem is thought to tweak 50–70 years older than goodness earlier manuscript. Fragments of spruce early 16th-century black-letter edition, determined by D. Laing, are reproduced in the Adversaria of representation Bannatyne Club. The poem has been frequently reprinted, by

• Richard Holland, Bangor, 1989
• John Pinkerton, outer shell his Scottish Poems (1792)
• David Laing (Bannatyne Club 1823)
• in "New Club" series, Paisley, 1882)
• the Hunterian Bludgeon in their edition of distinction Bannatyne Manuscript
• A.

  Diebler (Chemnitz, 1893)

• F. J. Amours in Scottish Alliterative Poems (Scottish Text Society, 1897), pp. 47–81. (See also Introduction pp.
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  xx.-xxxiv.)

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