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International companion to Scottish poetry [electronic resource] /edited by Carla Sassi ; Thomas Owen Clancy, Gaelic adviser.

Contributor(s): Clancy, Thomas Owen [editor.] | Sassi, Carla [editor.] | Project Muse [distributor.] | Project Muse.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: International companions to Scottish literature: ; UPCC book collections on Project MUSE: ; UPCC book collections on Project MUSE: Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016 2015); Glasgow [Scotland] : Scottish Literature International, 2015. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF (xi, 300 pages).).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781908980182.Subject(s): English poetry -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism | Scottish poetry -- History and criticism | Scotland -- In literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books. | Electronic books. Online resources: Full text available:
Contents:
Introduction / Carla Sassi -- part 1. Languages and chronologies -- 1. Early Celtic poetry (to 1500) / Thomas Owen Clancy -- 2. Scots poetry in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / R.D.S. Jack -- 3. Poetry in Latin / Roger Green -- 4. Poetry in the languages and dialects of northern Scotland / Roberta Frank, Brian Smith -- 5. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Sìm Innes and Alessandra Petrina -- 6. The eighteenth century / Ronald Black and Gerard Carruthers -- 7. The nineteenth century / Ian Duncan and Sheila Kidd -- 8. The poetry of modernity (1870-1950) / Emma Dymock and Scott Lyall -- 9. Contemporary poetry (1950-) / Attila Dósa and Michelle Macleod -- part 2. Poetic forms -- 10. The form of Scottish Gaelic poetry / William Gillies -- 11. Scots poetic forms / Derrick McClure -- 12. The ballad in Scots and English / Suzanne Gilbert -- part 3. Topics and themes -- 13. Nature, landscape and rural life / Louisa Gairn -- 14. Nation and home / Carla Sassi and Silke Stroh -- 15. Protest and politics / Wilson McLeod and Alan Riach -- 16. Love and erotic poetry / Peter Mackay -- 17. Faith and religion / Meg Bateman and James McGonigal -- 18. Scottish poetry as world poetry / Paul Barnaby -- 19. The literary environment / Robyn Marsack.
Summary: A range of leading international scholars provide the reader with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the extraordinary richness and diversity of Scotland's poetry. Addressing Languages and Chronologies, Poetic Forms, and Topics and Themes, this International Companion covers the entire subject from early medieval texts to contemporary writers, and examines English, Gaelic, Latin and Scots verse.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Carla Sassi -- part 1. Languages and chronologies -- 1. Early Celtic poetry (to 1500) / Thomas Owen Clancy -- 2. Scots poetry in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / R.D.S. Jack -- 3. Poetry in Latin / Roger Green -- 4. Poetry in the languages and dialects of northern Scotland / Roberta Frank, Brian Smith -- 5. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Sìm Innes and Alessandra Petrina -- 6. The eighteenth century / Ronald Black and Gerard Carruthers -- 7. The nineteenth century / Ian Duncan and Sheila Kidd -- 8. The poetry of modernity (1870-1950) / Emma Dymock and Scott Lyall -- 9. Contemporary poetry (1950-) / Attila Dósa and Michelle Macleod -- part 2. Poetic forms -- 10. The form of Scottish Gaelic poetry / William Gillies -- 11. Scots poetic forms / Derrick McClure -- 12. The ballad in Scots and English / Suzanne Gilbert -- part 3. Topics and themes -- 13. Nature, landscape and rural life / Louisa Gairn -- 14. Nation and home / Carla Sassi and Silke Stroh -- 15. Protest and politics / Wilson McLeod and Alan Riach -- 16. Love and erotic poetry / Peter Mackay -- 17. Faith and religion / Meg Bateman and James McGonigal -- 18. Scottish poetry as world poetry / Paul Barnaby -- 19. The literary environment / Robyn Marsack.

A range of leading international scholars provide the reader with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the extraordinary richness and diversity of Scotland's poetry. Addressing Languages and Chronologies, Poetic Forms, and Topics and Themes, this International Companion covers the entire subject from early medieval texts to contemporary writers, and examines English, Gaelic, Latin and Scots verse.

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