{"product_id":"dunbar-the-makar","title":"Dunbar the Makar","description":"\u003cp\u003eDunbar's genius has been recognised not only by critics but by modern poets such as Auden and Eliot.  This critical study examines Dunbar's view of himself as a poet, or `makar', and the way he handles various poetic genres.  New emphasis is placed on the petitions, or begging-poems, and their use for poetic introspection.  There is also a particularly full study of Dunbar's under-valued comic poems, and of the modes most congenial to him - notably parody, irony,\n\u003cbr\u003e`flyting', or invective, and black dream-fantasy.  Priscilla Bawcutt takes account of recent scholarship on Dunbar and also the literary traditions available to him, both in Latin and the vernaculars,\n\u003cbr\u003eincluding `popular' and alliterative poetry as well as that of Chaucer and his followers.  In contesting the over-simple and reductive views purveyed by some critics that Dunbar is primarily a moralist, or no more than a skilled virtuoso, she has written a well-informed, critically searching, and balanced account of the poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156297314542,"sku":"9780198129639","price":109.09,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780198129639.jpg?v=1706215802","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/dunbar-the-makar","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}