Recueils

• Ancient Scotish Poems, never before in print. But now published from the MS. collections of Sir Richard Maitland, of Lethington, Knight, Lord Privy Seal of Scotland, and a senator of the College of Justice. Comprising pieces written from about 1420 till 1586. With large notes, and a glossary. Prefixed are an essay on the origin of Scotish Poetry. A list of all the Scotish poets, with brief remarks. And an appendix is added, containing, among others, an account of the contents of the Maitland and Bannatyne MSS., [éd. John Pinkerton], Edinburgh, Dilly et Creech, 1786, 2 t. [GB: t. 1, t. 2] [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
• Scotish Poems, Reprinted from Scarce Editions. The Tales of the Priests of Peblis. The Palice of Honour. Squire Melorum. Eight Interludes, by David Lindsay. Philotus, a Comedy. Gawan and Gologran, a Metrical Romance. Ballads, First Printed at Edinburgh, 1508. With Three Pieces Before Unpublished. Collected by John Pinkerton, [...] in three volumes, London, Nichols, 1792, 3 t. [GB: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
• Pieces from the Makculloch and the Gray MSS. Together with the Chepman and Myllar Prints, edited by the late George Stevenson, Edinburgh et London, Blackwood (The Scottish Text Society, 65), 1918, xix + 303 p. [GB] [IA]
• The Poems of William Dunbar, edited by W. Mackay MacKenzie, London, 1932.
• The Poems of William Dunbar, edited by James Kinsley, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1979.
• The Makars: The Poems of Henryson, Dunbar, and Douglas, edited, introduced, and annotated by J. A. Tasioulas, Edinburgh, Canongate Books, 1999.
• Selected Poems of William Dunbar and Robert Henryson, edited by Douglas Gray, Penguin, 1999.
  Compte rendu: James Campbell, « Scotland's first confessional poet », The Threepenny Review, 80, 2000, p. 12-13. [Jstor]
• Klinck, Anne L., The Voices of Medieval English Lyric: An Anthology of Poems ca 1150-1530, Montreal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019, xx + 419 p. ISBN: 9780773558823
  Compte rendu:

  Simone Celine Marshall, dans The Medieval Review, 22.04.05, 2022. [www]

Généralités

• Atkinson, Laurie, Ideas of Authorship in the English and Scottish Dream Vision: Skelton, Dunbar, Hawes, Douglas, Cambridge, Brewer, 2024, ix + 225 p. ISBN: 9781843846925
• Bawcutt, Priscilla, Dunbar the Maker, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992.
• Devries, David Neil, The Dream-Vision in Fifteenth Century English Poetry, Ph. D. dissertation, New York University, 1991. [PQ]
  Traite de Lydgate, James I, Charles d'Orléans, Henryson et Dunbar.
• Ellenberger, Bengt, The Latin Element in the Vocabulary of the Earlier Makars Henryson and Dunbar, Lund, Printab (Lund Studies in English, 51), 1977, 163 p.
• Hasler, Anthony J., « William Dunbar: the elusive subject », Bryght Lanternes: Essays on the Language and Literature of Medieval Scotland, éd. J. Derrick McClure et Michael R. G. Spiller, Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Press, 1989, p. 194-208.
• Hasler, Antony J., Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland: Allegories of Authority, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 80), 2011, x + 253 p. ISBN: 9780511780158, 9780521809573, 9781107686564
• Kindrick, Robert L., « Monarchs and monarchy in the poetry of Henryson and Dunbar », Actes du 2^e Colloque de langue et de littérature écossaisses, éd. Jean-Jacques Blanchot et Claude Graf, Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg, 1979, p. 307-325.
• Lyall, Roderick J., « William Dunbar's Beast Fable », Scottish Literary Journal, 1:1, 1974, p. 17-28.
• Putter, Ad, « Animating medieval court satire », The Court and Cultural Diversity: Selected Papers from the Eighth Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, the Queen's University of Belfast 26 July-1 August 1995, éd. Evelyn Mullally et John Thompson, Cambridge, Brewer, 1997, p. 67-76. [IA]
• Ridley, F. H., « The literary relations of William Dunbar », Bamberger Beiträge zur Englischen Sprachwissenschaft, 15, 1984, p. 169-184.
• Schipper, Jakob, William Dunbar: sein Leben und seine Gedichte, Berlin, 1884.
• Seymour, Michael C., éd., English Writers of the Late Middle Ages. Nos 7-11, Aldershot et Brookfield, Variorum (Authors of the Middle Ages, 3), 1996, vi + 256 p.
• Spearing, A. C., The Medieval Poet as Voyeur: Looking and Listening in Medieval Love-Narratives, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993, x + 321 p. [IA] ISBN: 9780521410946
• Taylor, R. A., Dunbar: The Poet and His Period, London, Faber and Faber, 1931.