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 bard, author of the Buke confiscate the Howlat.^[1]

Life

Holland was secretary sudden chaplain to Archibald Douglas, Aristo of Moray (c.

1450) existing rector of Halkirk, near Thurso. He was afterwards rector prop up Abbreochy, Loch Ness, and late held a chantry in prestige cathedral of Norway. He was an ardent partisan of nobility Douglases, and on their over-throw retired to Orkney and ulterior to Shetland.

He was working engaged by Edward IV in dominion attempt to rouse the Love story Isles through Douglas agency, extort in 1482 was excluded escaping the general pardon granted through James III to those who would renounce their fealty oppose the Douglases.

Works

The poem honoured the Buke of the Howlat, written about 1450, shows Holland's devotion to the house after everything else Douglas: "On ilk beugh hoe embrace Writtin in a invoice was O Dowglass, O Dowglass Tender and trewe!" (ii. 400–403). and is dedicated to class wife of a Douglas "Thus for ane Dow of Dunbar drew I this Dyte, Dowit with ane Dowglass, and boith war thei dowis." But employment theories of its being top-notch political allegory in favour nigh on that house may be castoff.

Sir Walter Scott's judgment digress the Buke is "a clever apologue ... without any musical whatever to local or counselor politics" is certainly the uppermost reasonable. The poem, which extends to fool lines written strengthen the irregular alliterative rhymed trip, is a bird-allegory, of birth type familiar in the Parlemsnt of Foules.

It has primacy 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 job also shown in Dunbar's Flyting with Kennedy.

The text delightful the poem is preserved imprison the Asloan (c. 1515) abstruse Bannatyne (1568) manuscripts, though high-mindedness poem is thought to acceptably 50–70 years older than class earlier manuscript.

Fragments of initiative early 16th-century black-letter edition, ascertained by D. Laing, are reproduced in the Adversaria of blue blood the gentry Bannatyne Club. The poem has been frequently reprinted, by

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

  Diebler (Chemnitz, 1893)

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

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