	Site Map \| FAQ in Daily Almanac for Dec 2, 2009 Search White Pages
Skip Navigation Home Winter Holidays Atlas Encyclopedia Dictionary Thesaurus Features Quizzes Timelines Countries Slideshows

Fact Monster Kid's reference,
games, quizzes

Editor's Favorites

Blind Harry

Blind Harry or Henry the Minstrel,fl. late 15th cent., supposed Scottish poet. He is considered the author of the patriotic epic, The Wallace, which celebrates the life of Sir William Wallace. Violently anti-English, the poem was popular in Scotland down to the 18th cent. Since the skillful literary technique of The Wallace makes its composition by the traditionally blind and humble Harry unlikely, it is felt that the poem owes much to another hand.

See edition by W. A. Craigie (1940).

The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2007, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.

More on Blind Harry from Infoplease:

Blind Harry - Blind Harry A Scotch minstrel of the fifteenth century. His epic of Sir William Wallace runs to ...
Henry the Minstrel - Henry the Minstrel: Henry the Minstrel: see Blind Harry.
Harry Kemp: Blind - The Spring blew trumpets of color; Her Green sang in my brain — I heard a blind man groping "Tap — tap" with his cane;
Sir William Wallace - Wallace, Sir William Wallace, Sir William, 1272?–1305, Scottish soldier and national hero. ...
Encyclopedia: English Literature to 1499: Biographies - Encyclopeadia articles concerning English Literature to 1499: Biographies.

See more Encyclopedia articles on: English Literature to 1499: Biographies

Premium Partner Content

HighBeam Research

Related content from HighBeam Research on: Blind Harry

On the scent for bargains at Harry's.(PROPERTY) (Sunday Life (Belfast, Northern Ireland))

Guilty pleasure.("Blind Swordsman" DVD)(Brief Article) (Playboy)

Deconstructing Harry. (The Christian Century)

Little gods (The Spectator)

Thistle do nicely. (interview with actor Mel Gibson)(Interview) (Interview)

Contemporary Scottish writing. (The Literary Review)

Double-Blind Clinical Trials. (Shorts).(Brief Article) (Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients)

Alfred appeals to baby-boomer guitarists.(NEW PRODUCTS) (Music Trades)

Stylish window dressings.(PROPERTY) (Sunday Life (Belfast, Northern Ireland))

Inventing orientation and mobility techniques and teaching methods: a conversation with Russell Williams (Part 2).(Interview) (Re:view)

Additional search results provided by HighBeam Research, LLC. © Copyright 2005. All rights reserved.

Infoplease Tools