Twentieth-century Scottish Poetry
Author : Douglas Dunn
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 19,69 MB
Release : 2006
Category : English poetry
ISBN :
Author : Douglas Dunn
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 19,69 MB
Release : 2006
Category : English poetry
ISBN :
Author : Douglas Dunn
Publisher : Faber & Faber Limited
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 24,48 MB
Release : 2000
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9780571203888
In this series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet or poets of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express, the selectors offer intriguing insight into their own work.
Author : Maurice Lindsay
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 18,45 MB
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1474470270
The most wide-ranging anthology of twentieth-century poetry in English and Scots available.
Author : Douglas Dunn
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 22,45 MB
Release : 2006
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9780571228386
During the 1920s, Scottish poetry, personified by Hugh MacDiarmid, asserted its independence, denying the claim made by T. S. Eliot that all significant differences between Scottish and English literature had ceased to exist. It was an energetic 'No' to provincialism, and a vigorous 'Yes' to nationalism as an enabler of poetry. On its first appearance in 1992, the retrospective and organising vision of Douglas Dunn's now-classic anthology revealed a profounder level of achievement in modern Scottish poetry - whether in Scots, Gaelic or English - than had been formerly acknowledged, and introduced an entire canon of writing to a wider readership, edited with discrimination and exemplary lucidity.
Author : Maurice Lindsay
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,14 MB
Release : 2005
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9780013124931
Author : Duncan Glen
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Douglas Dunn
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 12,70 MB
Release : 1993
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9780571154326
In the 1920s, Scottish poetry, personified by Hugh MacDiarmid, asserted its independence, categorically denying the claim that there was no difference between English and Scottish literature. Though nationality is often considered a lesser, narrower ideal than poetry, in this case the polemical response has been enabling to rider and writer alike. In this anthology poets such as MacDiarmid, Edwin Muir, Sorley MacLean and Norman MacCaig as well as that of expatriates like Andrew Young and W.S. Graham are included.
Author :
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,18 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811206310
Although the number of Gaelic speakers has declined during the twentieth century, the last forty years have seen an astonishing flowering of Scottish Gaelic poetry, much of it in the modern idiom. This bilingual anthology provides a selection of the best work of poets who have contributed most to that revival--Sorely Maclean, George Campbell Hay, Derick Thomson, Iain Crichton Smith, and Donald MacAulay.
Author : Liam McIlvanney
Publisher : John Donald
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This study of poet Robert Burns's politics uncovers the intellectual context of the poet's political radicalism. Burns is revealed as a sophisticated political poet whose work draws on the democratic, contractarian ideology of Scottish Presbyterianism; the English and Irish Real Whig tradition; and the political theory of the Scottish Enlightenment. Casting new light on the poet's education and his early reading, this book provides detailed new readings of Burns's major poems and offers research on his links with Irish poets and radicals, providing a major reinterpretation of the man who is coming to be recognized as the poet laureate of the radical Enlightenment.
Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 11,77 MB
Release : 2009-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748636951
This volume considers the major themes, texts and authors of Scottish literature of the twentieth and, so far, twenty-first century. It identifies the contexts and impulses that led Scottish writers to adopt their creative literary strategies. Moving beyond traditional classifications, it draws on the most recent critical approaches to open up new perspectives on Scottish literature since 1900. The volume's innovative thematic structure ensures that the most important texts or authors are seen from different perspectives whether in the context of empire, renaissance, war and post-war, literary genre, generation, and resistance. In order to provide thorough coverage, these thematic chapters are complemented by chronological 'Arcade' chapters, which outline the contexts of the literature of the period by decades, and by 'Overview' chapters which trace developments across the century in theatre, language and Gaelic literature. Taken together, the chapters provide a thorough and thought-provoking account of the century's literature.