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Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry

Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry

by Douglas Dunn (Editor), Douglas Dunn (Editor)

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    Paperback 2006

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Synopsis

During the 1920s, Scottish poetry, personified by Hugh MacDiarmid, asserted its independence, denying the claim made by T. S. Eliot that all significant differences between Scottish and English literature had ceased to exist. It was an energetic 'No' to provincialism, and a vigorous 'Yes' to nationalism as an enabler of poetry. On its first appearance in 1992, the retrospective and organising vision of Douglas Dunn's now-classic anthology revealed a profounder level of achievement in modern Scottish poetry - whether in Scots, Gaelic or English - than had been formerly acknowledged, and introduced an entire canon of writing to a wider readership, edited with discrimination and exemplary lucidity.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 480
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 07 Sep 2006
ISBN 10: 0571228380
ISBN 13: 9780571228386
Book Overview: Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry, edited by Douglas Dunn with discrimination and exemplary lucidity, brings to light an extraordinary tradition and wealth of poetry - whether in Scots, Gaelic or English - originating in Scotland over the last hundred years.

Author Bio
Douglas Dunn was born in 1942 and grew up in Inchinnan in Renfrewshire. He worked as a librarian in Britain and the United States until 1971, when he became a full-time writer. He has published ten collections of poetry, and has edited The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry. In 1991 he was appointed Professor in the School of English at the University of St. Andrews.