James was the author of two poems, the _Kingis Quair_ and _Good Counsel_ (a short piece of three stanzas). The _Song of Absence_, _Peblis to the Play_ and _Christis Kirk on the Greene_ have been ascribed to him without evidence. _The Kingis Quair_ (preserved in the Selden MS. B. 24 in the Bodleian) is an allegorical poem of the _cours d'amour_ type, written in seven-lined Chaucerian stanzas and extending to 1379 lines. It was composed during James's captivity in England and celebrates his courtship of Lady Jane Beaufort. Though in many respects a Chaucerian _pastiche_, it not rarely equals its model in verbal and metrical felicity. Its language is an artificial blend of northern and southern (Chaucerian) forms, of the type shown in _Lancelot of the Laik_ and the _Quair of Jelusy_. BIBLIOGRAPHY.--The contemporary authorities for the reign of James I. are Andrew of Wyntoun, _The Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland_, edited by D. Laing (Edinburgh, 1872-1879); and Walter Bower's continuation of John of Fordun's _Scotichronicon_, edited by T. Hearne (Oxford, 1722). See also J. Pinkerton, _History of Scotland_ (1797); A. Lang, _History of Scotland_, vol. i. (1900); and G. Burnett, _Introduction to the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland_ (Edinburgh, 1878-1901). _The Kingis Quair_ was first printed in the _Poetical Remains of James the First_, edited by William Tytler (1783). Later editions are Morison's reprint (Perth, 1786); J. Sibbald's, in his _Chronicle of Scottish Poetry_ (1802, vol. i.); Thomson's in 1815 and 1824; G. Chalmers's, in his _Poetic Remains of some of the Scottish Kings_ (1824); Rogers's _Poetical Remains of King James the First_ (1873); Skeat's edition published by the Scottish Text Society (1884). An attempt has been made to dispute James's authorship of the poem, but the arguments elaborated by J. T. T. Brown (_The Authorship of the Kingis Quair_, Glasgow, 1896) have been convincingly answered by Jusserand in his _Jacques I^{er} d'Écosse fut-il poète? Étude sur l'authenticité du cahier du roi_ (Paris, 1897, reprinted from the _Revue historique_, vol. lxiv.). See also the full correspondence in the _Athenaeum_ (July-Aug. 1896 and Dec. 1899); W. A. Neilson, _Origins and Sources of the Court of Love_ (Boston, 1899) pp. 152 &c., 235 &c.; and Gregory Smith, _Transition Period_ (1900), pp. 40, 41.