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The Edinburgh Book of 20th-Century Scottish Poetry: The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry by Maurice Lindsay; Lesley Duncan; Helen Adam; Margot Robert Adamson; James Aitchison; Marion Angus; J.K. Annand; Meg Bateman; David Macleod Black; Sheena Blackhall; Hamish Blair; Alan Bold; Deric Bolton; Kate Y.A. Bone; James Bridie; George Mackay Brown; Hamish Brown; Margaret Gillies Brown; George Bruce; Tom Bryan; John Buchan; Tom Buchan; Elizabeth Burns; John Burnside; Ron Butlin; John M. Caie is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748620159); Selected for the pleasure and interest they offer these 400 or so poems from more than 150 poets span the entire century. While the major figures - MacDiarmid pre-eminently, and others such as Norman MacCaig, Iain Crichton Smith, and George Mackay Brown - are generously represented, there are many other voices, from the master balladeer of the Yukon, Robert Service, to the internationally-known psychiatrist R D Laing, the distinguished economist Sir Alec Cairncross, and the troubled but deeply eloquent Rayne Mackinnon. Women are given due prominence. Readers unfamiliar with Helen Adam will experience a frisson at the sexual tensions of her ballad-poems while Naomi Mitchison reveals her intimate self. The admirable Marion Angus, Violet Jacob, and Helen B Cruickshank show their talents, while contemporary poets Liz Lochhead, Carol Ann Duffy, Janet Paisley, Jackie Kay, and many others, are well represented. In a century of unprecedented change, the poems also act as a commentary on their times - and Scotland's war poets such as Charles Hamilton Sorley and Hamish Henderson, with their anger and eloquence, are included. With its lively
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- Author
- Maurice Lindsay; Lesley Duncan; Helen Adam; Margot Robert Adamson; James Aitchison; Marion Angus; J.K. Annand; Meg Bateman; David Macleod Black; Sheena Blackhall; Hamish Blair; Alan Bold; Deric Bolton; Kate Y.A. Bone; James Bridie; George Mackay Brown; Hamish Brown; Margaret Gillies Brown; George Bruce; Tom Bryan; John Buchan; Tom Buchan; Elizabeth Burns; John Burnside; Ron Butlin; John M. Caie
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780748620159
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Poetry, Literary Fiction, Humanities
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