Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Some Characteristics of Scots Literature, Vol. 22
This, of course, is merely barbarous and even at its best the metri cal accomplishment of the old makars is apt to remain somewhat extrinsic and formal. Their addiction to ornament betrays as much. They depend for their effects more on rhythm than on melody. In diction also their love of the grandiose sometimes led them into similar excesses. They would patch their homespun Scots with purple Latinisms, producing stuff like this.
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