Author: Alexander G. MurdochPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385350867
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
The Scottish Poets Recent and Living
Author: Alexander G. MurdochPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385350867
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
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.
Findings
Author: Kathleen JamiePublisher: Sort of Books
ISBN: 1908745096
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
It's surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look. Award-winning poet Kathleen Jamie has an eye and an ease with the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities. In Findings she draws together these themes to describe travels like no other contemporary writer. Whether she is following the call of a peregrine in the hills above her home in Fife, sailing into a dark winter solstice on the Orkney islands, or pacing around the carcass of a whale on a rain-swept Hebridean beach, she creates a subtle and modern narrative, peculiarly alive to her connections and surroundings.
Working Verse in Victorian Scotland
Author: Kirstie BlairPublisher:
ISBN: 0198843798
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This volume reassesses working-class poetry and poetics in Victorian Britain, using Scotland as a focus and with particular attention to the role of the popular press in fostering and disseminating working-class verse cultures. It studies a very wide variety of writers who are unknown to scholarship, and assesses the political, social, and cultural work which their poetry performed. During the Victorian period, Scotland underwent unprecedented changes in terms of industrialization, the rise of the city, migration, and emigration. This study shows how poets who defined themselves as part of a specifically Scottish tradition responded to these changes. It substantially revises our understanding of Scottish literature in this period, while contributing to wider investigations of the role of popular verse in national and international cultures.
Modern Scottish Women Poets
Author: Dorothy McMillanPublisher: Birlinn Limited
ISBN: 9781841955261
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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.
One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets
Author: David Herschell EdwardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
“A” Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century
Author: S. Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Sporting Anecdotes
Author: James Glass BertramPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gambling
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Author: Thomas Sommers