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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.

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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of Sydney Goodsir Smith’s Carotid Cornucopius   Richie McCaffery 12 The Merrie Life and Dowie Death of Colickie Meg: An Unpublished Carotidian Drama   Paul Barnaby 13 Sydney Goodsir Smith’s the Wallace in Context   David Robb 14 Sydney Goodsir Smith, Artist and Art Critic   Alan Riach and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

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      Publisher: Brill
      Publication Date: 19/03/2020
      ISBN13: 9789004425101, 978-9004425101
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      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      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

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