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Auld Reekie
Author | : Ralph Lownie |
Publisher | : Timewell Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Edinburgh (Scotland) |
ISBN | : 9781857252040 |
In this widely-praised anthology Ralph Lownie draws on a wide range of sources, including speeches, memoirs, letters, poems, novels and journals, to capture the physicality and spirit of Scotlands capital.
The Bard
Author | : Robert Crawford |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2009-01-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780691141718 |
No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns. Wonderfully readable, The Bard catches Burns's energy, brilliance, and radicalism as never before. To his international admirers he was a genius, a hero, a warm-hearted friend; yet to the mother of one of his lovers he was a wastrel, to a fellow poet he was "sprung . . . from raking of dung," and to his political enemies a "traitor." Drawing on a surprising number of untapped sources--from rediscovered poetry by Burns to manuscript journals, correspondence, and oratory by his contemporaries--this new biography presents the remarkable life, loves, and struggles of the great poet. Inspired by the American and French Revolutions and molded by the Scottish Enlightenment, Burns was in several senses the first of the major Romantics. With a poet's insight and a shrewd sense of human drama, Robert Crawford outlines how Burns combined a childhood steeped in the peasant song-culture of rural Scotland with a consummate linguistic artistry to become not only the world's most popular love poet but also the controversial master poet of modern democracy. Written with accessible elan and nuanced attention to Burns's poems and letters, The Bard is the story of an extraordinary man fighting to maintain a sly sense of integrity in the face of overwhelming pressures. This incisive biography startlingly demonstrates why the life and work of Scotland's greatest poet still compel the attention of the world a quarter of a millennium after his birth.
Scotland's Books
Author | : Robert Crawford |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 848 |
Release | : 2009-01-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199727678 |
From Treasure Island to Trainspotting, Scotland's rich literary tradition has influenced writing across centuries and cultures far beyond its borders. Here, for the first time, is a single volume presenting the glories of fifteen centuries of Scottish literature. In Scotland's Books the much loved poet Robert Crawford tells the story of Scottish imaginative writing and its relationship to the country's history. Stretching from the medieval masterpieces of St. Columba's Iona - the earliest surviving Scottish work - to the energetic world of twenty-first-century writing by authors such as Ali Smith and James Kelman, this outstanding account traces the development of literature in Scotland and explores the cultural, linguistic and literary heritage of the nation. It includes extracts from the writing discussed to give a flavor of the original work, and its new research ranges from specially made translations of ancient poems to previously unpublished material from the Scottish Enlightenment and interviews with living writers. Informative and readable, this is the definitive single-volume guide to the marvelous legacy of Scottish literature.
Records of the Glasgow Bibliographical Society
Author | : Glasgow Bibliographical Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Bibliography |
ISBN | : |
Robert Fergusson and the Scottish Periodical Press
Author | : Rhona Brown |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2016-04-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 131706223X |
Though Robert Fergusson published only one collection of poems during his lifetime, he was a fixture in the Scottish periodical press. Rhona Brown explores Fergusson's poetic output in its immediate periodical context, enabling a new understanding of Fergusson's contribution to poetry that also enlarges on our understanding of the Scottish periodical press. Focusing on the development of his career in Walter Ruddiman's Weekly Magazine, Brown situates Fergusson's poetry alongside contemporary events that expose Fergusson's preoccupations with the frivolities of fashion, theatrical culture, the economic status of Scottish manufacture, and politics. At the same time, Brown offers fascinating insights into the political climate of Enlightenment Scotland and shows the Weekly Magazine in relationship to the larger Scottish and British periodical milieus. She concludes by exploring reactions to Fergusson's death in the British periodical presses, arguing that contrary to critical consensus, the poet's death was ignored neither by his own country nor by the larger literary community.
Poems on Various Subjects by Robert Fergusson. In Two Parts
Author | : Robert Fergusson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1785 |
Genre | : Scottish poetry |
ISBN | : |