Modern Scottish Poetry

by Christopher Whyte

Although Scottish poetry gained an increasingly high profile towards the end of the twentieth century, this groundbreaking work is the first book length study of the field. Christopher Whyte takes significant collections by 20 poets writing in English, Scots and Gaelic as the starting point for an examination of their whole career and of the connections between them. Poets featured include Sorley MacLean, Edwin Muir, George Campbell Hay, Sydney Goodsir...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748616004
• ISBN13: 9780748616008
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher