Collected Poems: Introduction by Hugh MacDiarmid
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The premature death of Sydney Goodsir Smith at the age of fifty-nine deprived the world of one of the major personalities in twentieth-century British literature. The poems included in this volume, mostly written in Scots dialect - from Skail Wind, first published in 1941, to the verse collections of his maturity and the gentle, philosophical compositions of his later years - show us the journey of a man who understood the world only too well, and are a testament to the inventive genius of his mind. Contains notes and a full glossary.
Author: Sydney Goodsir Smith
Format: Paperback, 269 pages, 130mm x 198mm, 380 g
Published: 2025, Alma Books Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: Poetry Texts & Poetry Anthologies
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The premature death of Sydney Goodsir Smith at the age of fifty-nine deprived the world of one of the major personalities in twentieth-century British literature. The poems included in this volume, mostly written in Scots dialect - from Skail Wind, first published in 1941, to the verse collections of his maturity and the gentle, philosophical compositions of his later years - show us the journey of a man who understood the world only too well, and are a testament to the inventive genius of his mind. Contains notes and a full glossary.
Collected Poems: Introduction by Hugh MacDiarmid