Modern Scottish Poets Vol 13

Excerpt from Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices But the end of our labours must come, and in proof of this we have now merely to add that the general index has been for months In preparation - this important work, requiring arduous and studious application, having been kindly undertaken by Mr Franklin T. Barrett, Glasgow. The index will be very full and comprehensive, and will In clude names of poets, titles of poems quoted and mentioned, and titles of volumes by the respective writers. There will also be classified entries of birthplaces and occupations, showing at a glance the distribution of popular poetic fancy throughout the land and through professions and trades. The index will thus Show what poems or books were published by a certain man who wrote a certain poem or volume; what poets belong to certain dis tricts and what trades or professions have had their poets, and who these poets were. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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.

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Excerpt from Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices In our estimates of the poets we have, as be fore, endeavoured neither to rise into the vague ights of the panegryist, nor sink into the bathos of the apologist. Amidst the exacting duties of journalistic work, the task of pre paring authentic biographies of so varied a character, frequently out of a bewildering and heterogeneous mass of material, has been no light one. Yet the kindly reception by the public and the press of our previous efforts, and the encourage ment we received from publishers of copyright works encouraged us to persevere with our labours and, should the soft spring breath of kindly appreciation continue to warm the chilly atmos phere, we hope to be able to bring forth during 1883 another and concluding volume of owers of perhaps even greater richness and beauty, and thus preserve them to blossom forth and beautify and enrich our national literature. In the words of a recent writer - Every true lover of our native minstrelsy may in these days find much to instruct him and to delight him in the perusal of The Modern Scottish Poets by Edwards, of Brechin. And we are sure he will be satisfied that the land of Burns continues to be the land of song, and still owns a host of poetical writers, many of whose productions are of sterling merit, and will continue to charm the hearts of Scotchmen so long as they continue to love their native land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Bringing together over 100 years of creative and vital American poetry in one volume, Anthology of Modern American Poetry includes over 750 poems by 161 American poets ranging from Walt Whitman to Sherman Alexie. It represents not only the traditionally familiar poetic works of the last hundred years but also includes numerous poems by women, minority, and progressive writers only rediscovered in the past two decades. It is also the first anthology to give full treatment to American long poems and poetic sequences.

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.