Collected Poems
Introduction by Hugh MacDiarmid
Published on 22. May 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
269 pages
978-0-7145-5081-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Alma Books Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 194 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
388 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7145-5081-7 (9780714550817)
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Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915-75), a principal figure of the Scottish Renaissance, is - together with Hugh MacDiarmid - one of the founders of Scottish modern poetry.