The Oxford book of Scottish verse

Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford Oxford University Press 1989Description: xxix,633pISBN: 019282600XContained works: MacQueen, John, comp | Scott, Tom, compSubject(s): English literature | English poetryDDC classification: 821.08 Summary: Spanning seven centuries of Scottish verse from the thirteenth to twentieth century, The Oxford Book of Scottish Verse presents 326 poems by nearly one hundred poets. Including verse by such notable poets as John Barbour, William Dunbar, Alexander Scott, Robert Burns, James Hogg, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Andrew Young, Edwin Muir, Hugh MacDiarmid, Edith Robertson, Kathleen Raine, Norman MacCaig, and George MacKay Brown, the volume provides a full and balanced representation of the depth of Scottish verse. The editors have emphasized verse written in Scots as opposed to English and have focused on verse written before 1603 in an attempt to do justice to the much-neglected achievements of Scottish poetry in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, as well as to that of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
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Spanning seven centuries of Scottish verse from the thirteenth to twentieth century, The Oxford Book of Scottish Verse presents 326 poems by nearly one hundred poets. Including verse by such notable poets as John Barbour, William Dunbar, Alexander Scott, Robert Burns, James Hogg, Walter
Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Andrew Young, Edwin Muir, Hugh MacDiarmid, Edith Robertson, Kathleen Raine, Norman MacCaig, and George MacKay Brown, the volume provides a full and balanced representation of the depth of Scottish verse. The editors have emphasized verse written in Scots as opposed to English and have focused on verse written before 1603 in an attempt to do justice to the much-neglected achievements of Scottish poetry in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, as well as to that of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

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