This packed anthology contains a vast selection of literature in Scots. From the Renaissance makars to contemporary authors together with work in translation from a number of different languages it gathers into one volume writers as diverse as Robert Henryson William Dunbar Robert Fergusson Robert Burns Jean Elliot Walter Scott Hugh MacDiarmid Liz Lochead Charles Baudelaire and Feodor Dostoevsky as well as some of the finest anonymous ballads and songs ever composed. Arranged thematically into t