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| Author | : Peter Mackay |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 347 |
| Release | : 2011-04-14 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139499947 |
The comparative study of the literatures of Ireland and Scotland has emerged as a distinct and buoyant field in recent years. This collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparison of modern Irish and Scottish poetry, featuring close readings of texts within broad historical and political contextualisation. Playing on influences, crossovers, connections, disconnections and differences, the 'affinities' and 'opposites' traced in this book cross both Irish and Scottish poetry in many directions. Contributors include major scholars of the new 'archipelagic' approach, as well as leading Irish and Scottish poets providing important insights into current creative practice. Poets discussed include W. B. Yeats, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, Louis MacNeice, Edwin Morgan, Douglas Dunn, Seamus Heaney, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala ni Dhomhnaill, Don Paterson and Kathleen Jamie. This book is a major contribution to our understanding of poetry from these islands in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
| Author | : Dorothy McMillan |
| Publisher | : Birlinn Limited |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9781841955261 |
This invaluable collection traces the work of nearly a hundred writers over one of the most eventful periods in Scottish literary history. An extensive introduction sets the scene for the growth of women writers from Scotland throughout the whole of the twentieth century. With over 200 poems—from Naomi Jackson, Carol Ann Duffy, Dilys Rose, Kathleen Jamie, Meg Bateman, Jackie Kay, Liz Lochhead and many others—this collection celebrates the exceptional power and range of Scottish women poets.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1977 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Colin Waters |
| Publisher | : Vagabound Voices Pub Limited |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9781908251350 |
Throw a stone in Edinburgh or Glasgow today and you'll hit a poet. The Scottish spoken word scene has exploded, reaching a level of popularity last seen in the late 1970s, another era, coincidentally, when the issue of Scottish self-determination was in the air. A generation of poets has emerged who have grown up in an age of change, political and technological, with the internet providing them not only with new ways of sharing writing - through their websites, podcasts, Twitter - but also in some cases with a subject too. It's a scene where you are just as liable to encounter ancient gods as you are video game characters. This book is a survey, a yearbook, a celebration, and a promise of things to come.
| Author | : Stewart Conn |
| Publisher | : Luath Press Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : English poetry |
| ISBN | : 9781905222612 |
Scotland has a long history of producing outstanding poetry. From the humblest but-and-ben to the grandest castle, the nation had a great tradition of celebration and commemoration through poetry. 100 favourite Scottish poems - incorporating the nation's best-loved poems as selected in a BBC Scotland listeners poll - ranges from the ballads of Burns from Proud Maisie to The Queen of Sheba, and from Cuddle Doon to The Jeelie Piece Song.
| Author | : Norman MacCaig |
| Publisher | : Canongate Books |
| Total Pages | : 127 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0862414008 |
This book contains a selection of the finest work from three of Scotland's best-known and best-loved poets. They have fascinated and charmed thousands of readers and listeners across Europe and America with the energy, humor and compassion of their vision.
| Author | : Christopher Whyte |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : LITERARY CRITICISM |
| ISBN | : 9781474473590 |
Although Scottish poetry gained an increasingly high profile towards the end of the twentieth century, this groundbreaking work is the first book length study of the field.
| Author | : Gaby Morgan |
| Publisher | : Macmillan Children's Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2020-04-02 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781529008258 |
An inspiring anthology of the best of Scottish poetry to keep you company for every day of your life.A Scottish Poem for Every Day of the Year is a glorious collection of 366 poems compiled by Gaby Morgan. Reflecting the changing seasons and marking key dates in the Scottish calendar - from Burns Night to the Edinburgh Hogmanay - these poems are powerful, thoughtful, and will give you a new reason to love Scotland every day of the year.This collection is bursting at the seams with the strongest voices in Scottish poetry: Robert Burns, George Mackay Brown and Sir Walter Scott sit alongside Liz Lockhead, Don Paterson and Jackie Kay to deliver magic on every page that lasts a whole year!
| Author | : Maurice Lindsay |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
The most wide-ranging anthology of twentieth-century poetry in English and Scots available.
| Author | : David Sergeant |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2011-11-30 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0748643583 |
New essays on Burns' special place in Scottish, English and Irish literary cultureIn this volume, 17 leading Burns scholars, poetry critics and practising poets reflect on the enduring significance of one of the most important poets of the 18th century. They show that Burns was a highly innovative and technically accomplished poet, as capable of transforming earlier traditions as of launching new literary trends.Looks at Burns' place amongst his literary predecessors, contemporaries and heirs, including:* Scottish poets such as Ramsay, Fergusson, Byron, Hogg, MacDiarmid, Paterson, Dunn & Mackay Brown* English poets such as Milton, Addison, Gray & Wordsworth* Classical writers such as Virgil* Irish poets such as Merriman, Goldsmith, Dermody & HeaneyBy looking at Burns in the context of other poets, each chapter sheds new lighton his own practices and the practice of poetry in general. They investigate the political, national, philosophical and ethical aspects of his poetry, showing how you can deepen
