Barclay, Alexander

Related Category: English Literature, 1500 to 1799: Biographies

(bär´klē, –klā), 1475?–1552, Scottish clergyman and poet. Although the first to write pastoral eclogues in English, he is best known for The Ship of Fools (1509), a translation and elongation of Sebastian Brant's widely popular poem Das Narrenschiff.