Sir David Lyndsay: Facts & Related Content

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Also Known As Sir David Lindsay
Born c.1490
Died Before April 18, 1555
Notable Works “An Answer quhilk Schir David Lyndsay maid to the Kingis Flyting”“Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaits”“Testament and Complaynt of Our Soverane Lordis Papyngo”“The Dreme”
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Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Allan Ramsay, oil painting by John Smibert; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Allan Ramsay
Scottish poet
Joanna Baillie, engraving by H. Robinson after a portrait by Sir William Newton
Joanna Baillie
British author
William Dunbar
Scottish poet
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
John Gay, oil painting by William Aikman; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
John Gay
British author
Thomas Lodge
English writer
John Marston
British dramatist
George Gascoigne
George Gascoigne
English poet
Richard Savage
English writer
James Crerar Reaney
Canadian writer
Barrie, 1893
J.M. Barrie
Scottish author
Alasdair Gray
Scottish novelist, playwright, and artist
John Davidson, crayon drawing by Walter Sickert; in the British Museum
John Davidson
Scottish poet
John Home
English dramatist
James Bridie
Scottish playwright
Josephine Tey, 1934
Josephine Tey
Scottish author
Gawin Douglas
Scottish bishop and poet
Robert Henryson
Scottish author

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