Sydney Goodsir Smith, Poet

Essays on His Life and Work
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42510-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 30, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 586 g

Reihe: SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature

Sydney Goodsir Smith, Poet: Essays on His Life and Work offers the first substantial work to assess his life and writings since his premature death in 1975. Considered a major figure in the second wave of Hugh MacDiarmid’s ‘Scottish Literary Renaissance’, Smith’s unique body of work has largely fallen from critical discussion of post-war Scottish literature.



This book remedies this by showing how his work may have fallen out of favour, and then by reappraising his distinctive and varied achievements in poetry, drama, art and art criticism, the novel and translations. Early career and established academics explore the many strands of his work as the best way of giving this multifaceted literary figure renewed attention.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

McCaffery, Richie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments and a Note on the Poems

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Richie McCaffery

1 Sydney Goodsir Smith: A Centenary Appreciation

Patrick Crotty

2 Skail Winds and Scattered Personalities: The Formation of Identity in Sydney Goodsir Smith’s Early Poetry

Emma Dymock

3 ‘My Elder Brother in the Muse’: Sydney Goodsir Smith and Hugh MacDiarmid

Margery Palmer McCulloch

4 Refraction, Intertexts and Diegesis in Sydney Goodsir Smith’s under the Eildon Tree

Christopher Whyte

5 Nationalism in the Poetry of Sydney Goodsir Smith

J. Derrick McClure

6 ‘Huntress, Slayer, White Unmortal Queyne’: Women in the Work of Sydney Goodsir Smith

Monika Szuba

7 ‘Order and Adventure’: Sydney Goodsir Smith’s Translations

Stewart Sanderson

8 Sydney Goodsir Smith: Gangrel Rymour, European Scot

Tom Hubbard

9 Unreal Edinburgh: From Li Po to Kynd Kittock

John Corbett

10 Reveries of a ‘Gangrel Scriever’: Gowdspink in Reekie and Oliver Goldsmith

Mario Relich

11 ‘Your maist inebriant savant’: A History of Sydney Goodsir Smith’s Carotid Cornucopius

Richie McCaffery

12 The Merrie Life and Dowie Death of Colickie Meg: An Unpublished Carotidian Drama

Paul Barnaby

13 Sydney Goodsir Smith’s the Wallace in Context

David Robb

14 Sydney Goodsir Smith, Artist and Art Critic

Alan Riach and Alexander Moffat

Selective Glossary of Sydney Goodsir Smith’s Scots Words

Annotated Bibliography of Publications by and about Sydney Goodsir Smith

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Richie McCaffery is an independent researcher in the field of Scottish literature, as well as a published poet, with his most recent collection being Passport (2018). He has a PhD (2016) in Scottish literature from the University of Glasgow.