DOUGLAS. GAwrx or CAviN (e.1474-15221. A Scottish poet. the third son of Archibald. fifth Earl of Angus. lie was educated at Saint An drews for the Church, and was early appointed in Presionkirk, near Dunbar. In 1301 he was made provost of Saint Giles, Edinburgh. from the marriage of his nephew. the sixth Earl of Angus, to the widowed queen of James IV., Doug las expected rapid preferment: hut the jealousy of the nobility amt the Regent Albany was such that who had. through the influenee of the Queen, obtained the bishoprk of Dunkeld directly from the Pope (January. 13131, was tried before the Scottish peers, found guilty of conspiring against the privileges of the Crown. and emalenmed to imprisonment. Ile was set at liberty in about a year. and indn•led into his bishopric% Owing to his nephew's ill-treatment of (, ueet]. who therenptin joined with the Re gent against the DouglAses, he was deprived of his bishoprie m20). Ile went to England to
obtain the aid of Henry •III_ but aceomplished nothing. and died suddenly of the plague in Lon don. His poems mostly to his early life. They comprise two allegories. I•111 10141, 7'71 Palier of Honour and Kiev and a translation of •ereirs Mori,' into Scottish verse. There is.
besides, a minor poem on Conscience. To each book of the _Eneid is prefixed a description of Scottish scenery. and the translation. iu 1513, is the first complete rendering of a long Latin classic into English. In his original poems Douglas carried on the tradition of Chaucer. His allegories are beautiful. and hi, landscapes sur pass any others in our early poetry. Ills Works, edited, with a memoir, by Small, were published in four volumes (Edinburgh, 1974).