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WALTER KENNEDY (c. 1460–c. 1508)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 731 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WALTER See also:KENNEDY (c. 1460–c. 1508)  , Scottish poet, was the third son of See also:Gilbert, 1st See also:Lord See also:Kennedy . He matriculatedat See also:Glasgow University in 1475 and took his M.A. degree in 2478 . In 1481 he was one of four examiners in his university, and in 1492 he acted as depute for his See also:nephew, the hereditary bailie of Carrick . He is best known for his See also:share in the Flyting with See also:Dunbar (q.v.) . In this coarse combat of wits Dunbar taunts his See also:rival with his Highland speech (the poem is an expression of Gaelic and " See also:Inglis," i.e . See also:English, antagonism); and implies that he had been involved in See also:treason, and had disguised himself as a See also:beggar in See also:Galloway . With the exception of this share in the Flyting Kennedy's poems are chiefly religious in See also:character . They include The Praise of Aige, Ane Agit Manis Invective against Mouth Thankless, Ane See also:Ballot in Praise of Our See also:Lady, The See also:Passion of See also:Christ and Pious Counsale . They are printed in the rare supplement to See also:David See also:Laing's edition of See also:William Dunbar (1834), and they have been re-edited by Dr J . Schipper in the proceedings of the Kais . Akad. der Wissenschaften (See also:Vienna) . See also the prolegomena in the Scottish See also:Text Society's edition of Dunbar; and (for the See also:life) See also:Pitcairn's edition of the Historie of the Kennedies (1830) .

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