
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Rillie
E. Morgan(Author)
Enitharmon Press
63rd Edition
Published on 1. October 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
24 pages
978-1-904634-34-8 (ISBN)
Description
Edwin Morgan writes: 'Jack Rillie, now retired, was a very distinguished member of the English Department at Glasgow University, and divulged a broad humanism which would make it possible for us to enumerate more than thirteen ways of looking at such a finely exploratory mind. Several generations of students will testify to his brilliant but never pedantic qualities. The fact that a special tribute to him in the form of a handwritten version of my poem came from Alasdair Gray, calligrapher and artist as well as novelist and poet, helps to indicate the spread of his interests, as do also "Conversation in Palestine", its unexpected pleasures as yet unpublished, and the 80th birthday poem for Ian Hamilton Finlay, first published in the art-literary magazine "Map". Many things come together in this remarkable book.'
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Edition
63rd ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Limited edition, Letterpress.
ISBN-13
978-1-904634-34-8 (9781904634348)
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Person
Edwin Morgan was born in 1920 and educated at Glasgow University, where his studies were interrupted by war service in the Royal Army Medical Corps. After graduating with a first in 1947 he became a lecturer at the university, retiring as Professor of English in 1980. Among his many poetry books are The Second Life (1968), Themes on a Variation (1988) and Collected Poems (1990). He has published essays, reviews and translations - among them Racine's Phedre in Scots, for which he received the Weidenfeld Prize for Translation. Edwin Morgan was made Glasgow's first Poet Laureate in 1999 and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2000.