A01=Sydney Goodsir Smith
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English literature
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poet
poetry
scots
scottish
Scottish literature
Skail Wind
Wallace
William Wallace
Product details
- ISBN 9780714550817
- Weight: 380g
- Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 22 May 2025
- Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The premature death of Sydney Goodsir Smith at the age of fifty-nine deprived the world of one of the major personalities in twentieth-century British literature.
The poems included in this volume, mostly written in Scots dialect – from Skail Wind, first published in 1941, to the verse collections of his maturity and the gentle, philosophical compositions of his later years – show us the journey of a man who understood the world only too well, and are a testament to the inventive genius of his mind.
Contains notes and a full glossary.
Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915–75), a principal figure of the Scottish Renaissance, is – together with Hugh MacDiarmid – one of the founders of Scottish modern poetry.
