Scottish poems
2009
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This is a sweeping literary tour of Scotland from the Middle Ages to the present, gathering the best of Scottish poetry from beloved classics to contemporary voices. Scottish poetry has a long and distinguished history in three languages - English, Scots, and Gaelic - and all are well represented here. The most renowned and beloved poets - Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hugh MacDiarmid, and Muriel Spark among them - mingle with their lesser-known but equally distinctive compatriots, including many of those who have emerged from the recent Scottish poetry renaissance. The poems are organized by theme: from matters of the heart to subjects spiritual and philosophical to the poetry of place. All of the verse is marked by a characteristic energy, wit, satire, and passionate lyrical intensity, and all demonstrates the power of art that proudly emanates from, but is never limited by, the place of its birth.
Main title:
Scottish poems / edited by Gerard Carruthers.
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Imprint:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2009.
Collation:
256 pages ; 17 cm.
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Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
Place matters. From The dreme / Sir David Lindsay -- A sonnett: On Sir William Alexanders harshe vearses after the inglishe fasone -- Forth feasting / William Drummond of Hawthornden -- Glen gallaidh / Rob Donn Macaoidh -- from Fragments of ancient poetry / James Macpherson -- The King's birth-day in Edinburgh / Robert Fergusson -- The praise of Ben Doran / Donnchadh Ban Mac An T-saoir -- from An epistle to the Scottish Society of Antiquaries / Alexander Geddes -- Songs of my native land / Lady Nairne -- from The lay of the last minstrel / Sir Walter Scott -- The flowers of Scotland / James Hogg -- Glasgow / Alexander Smith -- Blows the wind today / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Spring song / John Davidson -- Celtic melancholy / John Macdougall Hay -- Alas! Poor Queen / Marion Angus -- Scotland / Alexander Gray -- Crowdieknowe / Hugh Macdiarmid -- Scotland 1941 / Edwin Muir -- Hallaig / Sorley Maclean -- The Queen of Sheba / Kathleen Jamie -- Personal matters. The daemon lover / Anon. -- from The Kingis quair / James I -- To his mistress / Alexander Montgomerie -- A rondel of luve / Alexander Scott -- 'Although that crooked, crawling Vulcan lie' / James VI -- Sonet. In Orknay / William Fowler -- Sonet / Mark Alexander Boyd -- What ails the lasses at me? / Alexander Ross -- The bonnie broukit bairn / Hugh Macdiarmid -- The tryst / William Soutar -- One cigarette / Edwin Morgan -- The worst of all loves / Douglas Dunn -- Grandmother / William McIlvanney -- A summer's day / Tom Leonard -- Rapunzstilskin / Liz Lochhead -- Warming her pearls / Carol Ann Duffy -- Mooncalf / Don Paterson -- Philosophical matters. Sir Patrick Spens / Anon. -- from The brus / John Barbour -- The cock and the Jasp / Robert Henryson -- from Eneados / Gavin Douglas -- Of ambitious men / John Stewart of Baldynneis -- Of the day estivall / Alexander Hume -- On the death of Mr. William Aikman, the painter / James Thomson -- Wealthy, or the woody / Allan Ramsay -- To the louse / Robert Burns -- A winter night / Robert Burns -- from The city of dreadful night / James (B.V.) Thomson -- Glendale & Co. / James Young Geddes -- Interruption to a journey / Norman MacCaig -- To a bonny birch tree / George Campbell Hay -- Imagine a forest / W.S Graham -- Old fisherman with guitar / George Mackay Brown -- A young highland girl studying poetry / Iain Crichton Smith -- Against the transcendentalists / Muriel Spark -- Prayer matters. Christ's cross / Mugron (Abbot of Iona) -- Prayer to St. Columba / Simeon -- Poetry from the Inchcolm antiphoner / Anon. -- Thomas the Rhymer / Anon. -- The preiching of the swallow / Robert Henryson -- Ane Ballat of our Lady / William Dunbar -- The dance of the sevin deidly synnis / William Dunbar -- The XXIII psalm / Alexander Montgomerie -- Sonnet: on the River Tweed / Sir Robert Aytoun -- Song of winter / Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair -- Holy Willie's prayer / Robert Burns -- Coruisk / Robert William Buchanan -- A Christmas hymn: Wretched is Mary / Allan Macdonald -- Tam i' the Kirk / Violet Jacob -- The innumerable Christ / Hugh Macdiarmid -- The tower / Edwin Muir -- Old woman / Iain Crichton Smith.
ISBN:
9780307269713 (hardback)
Dewey class:
821.00809411
Local class:
821.008
Language:
English
BRN:
113939
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 821.008 SCO | Available |