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Scottish Poems

In time for Burns Night (the annual celebration of Scottish culture that takes place on January 25, the birthday of Robert Burns) — a sweeping literary tour of Scotland from the Middle Ages to the present, the only single-volume collection of Scottish poetry currently available.

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.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 256
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-307-26971-3
  • EAN
  • 9780307269713
  • Settings
  • Scotland
  • Genres
  • poetry, scotland
  • Release date
  • 2009