id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1645 Poetry of Scotland - Wikipedia .html text/html 7241 566 66 A number of Scottish poets, including William Alexander, John Murray and Robert Aytoun accompanied the king to London, where they continued to write,[31] but they soon began to anglicise their written language.[32] James's characteristic role as active literary participant and patron in the Scottish court made him a defining figure for English Renaissance poetry and drama, which would reach a pinnacle of achievement in his reign,[33] but his patronage for the high style in his own Scottish tradition largely became sidelined.[34] The only significant court poet to continue to work in Scotland after the king's departure was William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649).[35] He laid the foundations of a reawakening of interest in older Scottish literature, publishing The Ever Green (1724), a collection that included many major poetic works of the Stewart period.[42] He led the trend for pastoral poetry, helping to develop the Habbie stanza, which would be later be used by Robert Burns as a poetic form.[43] His Tea-Table Miscellany (1724–37) contained old Scots folk material, his own poems in the folk style and "gentilizings" of Scots poems in the English neo-classical style.[44] Ramsay was part of a community of poets working in Scots and English. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1645.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1645.txt