


Members of the movement were followed by a new generation of post-war poets including Edwin Morgan, who would be appointed the first Scots Makar by the inaugural Scottish government in 2004. The leading figure, Hugh MacDiarmid, attempted to revive the Scots language as a medium for serious literature. In the twentieth century there was a surge of activity in Scottish literature, known as the Scottish Renaissance. Towards the end of the Victorian era a number of Scottish-born authors achieved international reputations, including Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, J. He helped inspire Robert Burns, considered by many to be the national poet, and Walter Scott, whose Waverley Novels did much to define Scottish identity in the nineteenth century. The latter's Ossian Cycle made him the first Scottish poet to gain an international reputation. It was revived after union with England in 1707 by figures including Allan Ramsay and James Macpherson. When he acceded to the English throne in 1603 many followed him to the new court, but without a centre of royal patronage the tradition of Scots poetry subsided. In the late sixteenth century James VI became patron and member of a circle of Scottish court poets and musicians known as the Castalian Band. James V's court saw works such as Sir David Lindsay of the Mount's The Thrie Estaitis. In the early modern era royal patronage supported poetry, prose and drama. These were joined in the fifteenth century by Scots prose works.
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The first surviving major text in Early Scots literature is the fourteenth-century poet John Barbour's epic Brus, which was followed by a series of vernacular versions of medieval romances. After the Davidian Revolution of the thirteenth century a flourishing French language culture predominated, while Norse literature was produced from areas of Scandinavian settlement. As the state of Alba developed into the kingdom of Scotland from the eighth century, there was a flourishing literary elite who regularly produced texts in both Gaelic and Latin, sharing a common literary culture with Ireland and elsewhere. In the following centuries there was literature in Latin, under the influence of the Catholic Church, and in Old English, brought by Anglian settlers.

The earliest extant literature written in what is now Scotland, was composed in Brythonic speech in the sixth century and has survived as part of Welsh literature. It includes works in English, Scottish Gaelic, Scots, Brythonic, French, Latin, Norn or other languages written within the modern boundaries of Scotland. Scottish literature is literature written in Scotland or by Scottish writers. Three great men of Scottish literature: busts of Burns, Scott and Stevenson
