Sydney Goodsir Smith, Poet

Sydney Goodsir Smith, Poet

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-03-09

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 9004426493

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Sydney Goodsir Smith, Poet: Essays on His Life and Work offers the first substantial work to assess his life and writings since his premature death in 1975. Considered a major figure in the second wave of Hugh MacDiarmid’s ‘Scottish Literary Renaissance’, Smith’s unique body of work has largely fallen from critical discussion of post-war Scottish literature. This book remedies this by showing how his work may have fallen out of favour, and then by reappraising his distinctive and varied achievements in poetry, drama, art and art criticism, the novel and translations. Early career and established academics explore the many strands of his work as the best way of giving this multifaceted literary figure renewed attention.


Collected Poems

Collected Poems

Author: Stevie Smith

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 598

ISBN-13: 9780811208826

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Poems with drawings spanning the artists lifetime.


A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015

A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015

Author: Wolfgang Gortschacher

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2020-12-21

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 1118843207

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A comprehensive and scholarly review of contemporary British and Irish Poetry With contributions from noted scholars in the field, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a collection of writings from a diverse group of experts. They explore the richness of individual poets, genres, forms, techniques, traditions, concerns, and institutions that comprise these two distinct but interrelated national poetries. Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companion to Literature and Culture series, this book contains a comprehensive survey of the most important contemporary Irish and British poetry. The contributors provide new perspectives and positions on the topic. This important book: Explores the institutions, histories, and receptions of contemporary Irish and British poetry Contains contributions from leading scholars of British and Irish poetry Includes an analysis of the most prominent Irish and British poets Puts contemporary Irish and British poetry in context Written for students and academics of contemporary poetry, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a comprehensive review of contemporary poetry from a wide range of diverse contributors.


Selected Essays of Hugh MacDiarmid

Selected Essays of Hugh MacDiarmid

Author: Hugh MacDiarmid

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2022-08-19

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0520372115

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.


The Wallace

The Wallace

Author: Sydney Goodsir Smith

Publisher: Calder Publications Limited

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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The story of Wallace's triumph over the renegade Scottish Lords who had failed him at the Battle of Falkirk, the 'fause Mentieth', and King Edward I of England.


Scottish Literature Since 1707

Scottish Literature Since 1707

Author: Marshall Walker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-12

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1315505398

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Marshall Walker's lively and readable account of the highs and lows of Scottish literature from this important date to the present addresses the important themes of democracy, power and nationhood. Disposing of stereotypical ideas about Scotland and the Scots, this fresh approach to Scottish literature provides a critical interpretation of its distinctive style and presents the reader with an informative introduction to Scottish culture. Coverage includes the Scottish enlightenment and the world of Boswell and David Hulme to the 'Scottish Renaissance', associated with Hugh MacDiarmaid. Developments in the contemporary literary scene include John McGrath's theatre Company and the fiction and poetry of Alaistar Gray and Ian Crichton Smith. Particular attention is given to the work of Scottish women writers such as Lady Grizel Baillie and Liz Lochhead, who have been much neglected in previous literature.


The Scottish Sixties

The Scottish Sixties

Author: Eleano Bell

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2013-09-01

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 9401209804

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Although a number of publications have appeared in recent years marking the importance of the ‘swinging sixties’, many tend to be personally reflective in nature and London-centric in their coverage. By contrast, The Scottish Sixties: Reading, Rebellion, Revolution? addresses this misrepresentation and in so doing fills a gap in both Scottish and British literary and cultural studies. Through a series of academic analyses based on archival records, ephemera and work produced during the 1960s, this volume focuses uniquely on Scotland. In its concern with some of the key figures of Scottish cultural life, the book considers amongst other topics the implications of censorship, the role of little magazines in shaping cultural debates, the radical nature of much Scottish literature of the time, developments in the avant-garde and the role of experiment in theatre, film, TV, fine art and music.


Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Author: Donald Campbell

Publisher: Signal Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9781902669731

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Part of the Cities of the Imagination series, this is an in-depth cultural, historical, and literary guide by a lifelong native to Scotland's vibrant capital and home to one of the world's greatest arts festivals.