Norman MacCaig
Critical Essays
Published on 31. January 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-7486-0201-8 (ISBN)
Description
Norman MacCaig is one of Scotland's best-loved contemporary poets, admired for his startling metaphors and imagery, and for his illuminating wit. This is both an introduction to Norman MacCaig the poet and an analysis of the thematic and linguistic aspects of his work. Many of Britain's leading poets, scholars and writers, including Sorley MacLean, Iain Crichton Smith, George Mackay Brown and Roderick Watson, bring together their thoughts on MacCaig's poetry, placing him in the context of the changing cultural movements and attitudes of the last 30 years.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
266 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-0201-8 (9780748602018)
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Content
Introduction, Sorley MacLean; Poet's Pub - a personal tribute, George Mackay Brown; Norman MacCaig - the History Man, Raymond Ross; MacCaig and Gaeldom, John MacInnes; unmoved by the Movement - 50s MacCaig, Angus Calder; "Birds all singing", Iain Crichton Smith; the metaphysical and classical humours of Norman MacCaig, Joy Hendry; surroundings - the real MacCaig, Thom Nairn; this trash of metaphor - on the poetry of Norman MacCaig, Joy Hendry; MacCaig and people, Brian McCabe; the unlikely as usual, Nigel Forde; "...the weight of joy...and the weight of sadness" - dilemmas of "noticing" in the later poems, Roderick Watson; a metre of landscape, Valerie Gillies.