Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry by Douglas Dunn

Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry by Douglas Dunn

During the 1920s, Scottish poetry, personified by Hugh MacDiarmid, asserted its independence, denying the claim made by T. S. Eliot that all significant differences between Scottish and English literature had ceased to exist. It was an energetic 'No' to provincialism, and a vigorous 'Yes' to nationalism as an enabler of poetry. On its first appearance in 1992, the retrospective and organising vision of Douglas Dunn's now-classic anthology revealed a profounder level of achievement in modern Scottish poetry - whether in Scots, Gaelic or English - than had been formerly acknowledged, and introduced an entire canon of writing to a wider readership, edited with discrimination and exemplary lucidity.

Douglas Dunn was born in 1942 and grew up in Inchinnan in Renfrewshire. He worked as a librarian in Britain and the United States until 1971, when he became a full-time writer. He has published ten collections of poetry, and has edited The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry. In 1991 he was appointed Professor in the School of English at the University of St. Andrews.

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ISBN 13	9780571228386
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Title	Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry
Author	Douglas Dunn
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Year published	2006-09-07
Number of pages	480
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