“Gavin Douglas, set on a particular labour, with his mind full of Latin quantitative metre, attains a robuster versification than you are likely to find in Chaucer…the texture of Gavin's verse is stronger, the resilience greater.”

— Gavin Douglas

Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934), p. 103.
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Scottish Churchman, Scholar, Poet 1474–1522

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