Research Catalog

Title

Poem, purpose, and place : shaping identity in contemporary Scottish verse / Colin Nicholson.

Author

Nicholson, Colin.

Publication

Edinburgh : Polygon, ©1992.

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Details

Description

xxii, 254 pages; 22 cm

Series Statement

Determinations

Uniform Title

Determinations

Subject

• 1900-1999
• English poetry > Scottish authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• Scottish poetry > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• National characteristics, Scottish, in literature
• Poets, Scottish > 20th century > Interviews
• Place (Philosophy) in literature
• Group identity in literature
• Poetry > Authorship
• Intellectual life
• Literature
• Poets, Scottish
• Englisch
• Identität Motiv
• Interview
• Lyrik
• Lyriker
• Raum Motiv
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Geschichte (1930-1990)
• Geschichte 1930-1990
• Scotland > Intellectual life > 20th century
• Scotland > In literature
• Scotland
• Schottland
• Englisch

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Interviews.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Against an alien eternity / Sorley MacLean -- For the sake of Alba / Naomi Mitchison -- Such clarity of seeming / Norman MacCraig -- Living in the utterance / Edwin Morgan -- An impression of continuity / George Bruce -- Unlocking time's labyrinth / George Mackay Brown -- To have found one's country / Iain Chrichton Smith -- For our own and the others / Hamish Henderson -- Measuring a needful path / William Neill -- Patch of cosmic pattern / Tessa Ransford -- Dimensions of the sentient / Douglas Dunn -- Knucklebones of irony / Liz Lochhead -- Widdershins this life o mine / Ron Butlin -- A kind of logic / Ian Abbot.

ISBN

• 0748661387
• 9780748661381

LCCN

93148859

OCLC

• ocm27911973
• 27911973
• SCSB-2010378

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library