12 Facts About Scots-language literature

Scots-language literature is literature, including poetry, prose and drama, written in the Scots language in its many forms and derivatives.

Much Middle Scots Scots-language literature was produced by makars, poets with links to the royal court, which included James I, who wrote the extended poem The Kingis Quair.

Scots-language literature was part of a community of poets working in Scots and English that included William Hamilton of Gilbertfield, Robert Crawford, Alexander Ross, William Hamilton of Bangour, Alison Rutherford Cockburn and James Thompson.

Scottish poetry is often seen as entering a period of decline in the nineteenth century, with Scots-language literature poetry criticised for its use of parochial dialect.

The leading figure in the movement was Hugh MacDiarmid who attempted to revive the Scots language as a medium for serious Scots-language literature, developing a form of Synthetic Scots that combined different regional dialects and archaic terms.

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Much Middle Scots Scots-language literature was produced by makars, poets with links to the royal court, which included James I, who wrote the extended poem The Kingis Quair.

Scots-language literature laid the foundations of a reawakening of interest in older Scottish literature, publishing The Ever Green, a collection that included many major poetic works of the Stewart period.

Scots-language literature led the trend for pastoral poetry, helping to develop the Habbie stanza, which would be later be used by Robert Burns as a poetic form.

Scottish poetry is often seen as entering a period of decline in the nineteenth century, with Scots-language literature poetry criticised for its use of parochial dialect.

Scots-language literature's works were largely written in English and Scots was largely confined to dialogue or interpolated narrative, in a model that would be followed by other novelists such as John Galt and later Robert Louis Stevenson .

Scots-language literature was the first Scots Makar, appointed by the inaugural Scottish government in 2004.

Scots-language literature's adapted classic texts into Scots, with versions of Moliere's Tartuffe and The Misanthrope, while Edwin Morgan translated Cyrano de Bergerac .