“Arguably the best version of Virgil in English poetry.”

— Gavin Douglas

Douglas Gray, in W. F. Bolton (ed.) The Middle Ages (London: Sphere, 1970), p. 366.
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Scottish Churchman, Scholar, Poet 1474–1522

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