Author: Robert BurnsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Works of Robert Burns; with an Account of His Life, and a Criticism of His Writings, &c
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Author: Colin WatersPublisher: Vagabound Voices Pub Limited
ISBN: 9781908251350
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
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.
Early Scottish Poets
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382118998
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
Author: Robert BurnsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Burns and Other Poets
Author: David SergeantPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748643583
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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
The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-century Scottish Poetry
Author: Maurice LindsayPublisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The most wide-ranging anthology of twentieth-century poetry in English and Scots available.
A Companion to Medieval Scottish Poetry
Author: Priscilla BawcuttPublisher: D. S. Brewer
ISBN: 9781843842477
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
A full survey and overview of the extraordinary flowering of Scottish poetry in the middle ages.
The Brus
Author: John BarbourPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epic poetry, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland
Author: Antony J. HaslerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139496727
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
This book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry and various forms of authority, political and cultural, in England and Scotland at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Through poems by Skelton, Dunbar, Douglas, Hawes, Lyndsay and Barclay, it examines the paths by which court poetry and its narrators seek multiple forms of legitimation: from royal and institutional sources, but also in the media of script and print. The book is the first for some time to treat English and Scottish material of its period together, and responds to European literary contexts, the dialogue between vernacular and Latin matter, and current critical theory. In so doing it claims that public and occasional writing evokes a counter-discourse in the secrecies and subversions of medieval love-fictions. The result is a poetry that queries and at times cancels the very authority to speak that it so proudly promotes.
Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union (until 1707)
Author: Ian BrownPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748628622
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The History begins with the first full-scale critical consideration of Scotland's earliest literature, drawn from the diverse cultures and languages of its early peoples. The first volume covers the literature produced during the medieval and early modern period in Scotland, surveying the riches of Scottish work in Gaelic, Welsh, Old Norse, Old English and Old French, as well as in Latin and Scots. New scholarship is brought to bear, not only on imaginative literature, but also law, politics, theology and philosophy, all placed in the context of the evolution of Scotland's geography, history, languages and material cultures from our earliest times up to 1707.