Download or read book Scottish Poems written by Gerard Carruthers and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In time for Burns Night (the annual celebration of Scottish culture that takes place on January 25, the birthday of Robert Burns)—a sweeping literary tour of Scotland from the Middle Ages to the present, the only single-volume collection of Scottish poetry currently available. Scottish poetry has a long and distinguished history in three languages—English, Scots, and Gaelic—and all are well represented here. The most renowned and beloved poets—Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hugh MacDiarmid, and Muriel Spark among them—mingle with their lesser-known but equally distinctive compatriots, including many of those who have emerged from the recent Scottish poetry renaissance. The poems are organized by theme: from matters of the heart to subjects spiritual and philosophical to the poetry of place. All of the verse is marked by a characteristic energy, wit, satire, and passionate lyrical intensity, and all demonstrates the power of art that proudly emanates from, but is never limited by, the place of its birth.
Download or read book A Year of Scottish Poems written by Gaby Morgan and published by Macmillan Children's Books. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring anthology of the best of Scottish poetry to keep you company for every day of your life.A Scottish Poem for Every Day of the Year is a glorious collection of 366 poems compiled by Gaby Morgan. Reflecting the changing seasons and marking key dates in the Scottish calendar - from Burns Night to the Edinburgh Hogmanay - these poems are powerful, thoughtful, and will give you a new reason to love Scotland every day of the year.This collection is bursting at the seams with the strongest voices in Scottish poetry: Robert Burns, George Mackay Brown and Sir Walter Scott sit alongside Liz Lockhead, Don Paterson and Jackie Kay to deliver magic on every page that lasts a whole year!
Download or read book The History of Scottish Poetry Edited by J A Carlyle With a Memoir by D Laing and Glossary written by David Irving and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature From Columba to the Union until 1707 written by Ian Brown and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History begins with the first full-scale critical consideration of Scotland's earliest literature, drawn from the diverse cultures and languages of its early peoples. The first volume covers the literature produced during the medieval and early modern period in Scotland, surveying the riches of Scottish work in Gaelic, Welsh, Old Norse, Old English and Old French, as well as in Latin and Scots. New scholarship is brought to bear, not only on imaginative literature, but also law, politics, theology and philosophy, all placed in the context of the evolution of Scotland's geography, history, languages and material cultures from our earliest times up to 1707.
Download or read book The History of Scottish Poetry written by David Irving and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1861 Edition.
Download or read book My Heart s in the Highlands written by Gaby Morgan and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Heart’s In the Highlands: Classic Scottish Poems is a glorious celebration of poetry and verse by the greatest classic Scottish poets, and introduced by the acclaimed poet John Glenday. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. The poems in this collection are selected by editor, Gaby Morgan. With poems from famous Scottish writers such as Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott and Mary Queen of Scots herself there is plenty here to enjoy and inspire. The collection roams across so many aspects of Scottish life and culture; its landscape and its history, its people and its celebrations. It’s a country that has always inspired poets to write about love, nature and heritage, and to reflect on the important things of life.
Download or read book Scotland s Books written by Robert Crawford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-30 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Treasure Island to Trainspotting, Scotland's rich literary tradition has influenced writing across centuries and cultures far beyond its borders. Here, for the first time, is a single volume presenting the glories of fifteen centuries of Scottish literature. In Scotland's Books the much loved poet Robert Crawford tells the story of Scottish imaginative writing and its relationship to the country's history. Stretching from the medieval masterpieces of St. Columba's Iona - the earliest surviving Scottish work - to the energetic world of twenty-first-century writing by authors such as Ali Smith and James Kelman, this outstanding account traces the development of literature in Scotland and explores the cultural, linguistic and literary heritage of the nation. It includes extracts from the writing discussed to give a flavor of the original work, and its new research ranges from specially made translations of ancient poems to previously unpublished material from the Scottish Enlightenment and interviews with living writers. Informative and readable, this is the definitive single-volume guide to the marvelous legacy of Scottish literature.
Download or read book The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth century Scottish Poetry written by Maurice Lindsay and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most wide-ranging anthology of twentieth-century poetry in English and Scots available.
Download or read book The works of Robert Burns with an account of his life and a criticism on his writings written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Anthology of Scottish Folk Tales written by Various and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enchanting collection of stories gathers together legends from across Scotland in one special volume. Drawn from The History Press' popular Folk Tales series, herein lies a treasure trove of tales from a wealth of talented storytellers. From the Spaeman's peculiar advice and a laird who is transformed into a frog, to a fugitive hiding in a dark cave and the stoor worm battling with Assipattle, this book celebrates the distinct character of Scotland's different customs, beliefs and dialects, and is a treat for all who enjoy a well-told story.
Download or read book The History of Scotish Poetry written by David Irving and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Living Mountain written by Nan Shepherd and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AS SEEN ON BBC’S WINTERWATCH WITH CHRIS PACKHAM AND MICHAELA STRACHAN 'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain' Guardian In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape. Shepherd spent a lifetime in search of the 'essential nature' of the Cairngorms; her quest led her to write this classic meditation on the magnificence of mountains, and on our imaginative relationship with the wild world around us. Composed during the Second World War, the manuscript of The Living Mountain lay untouched for more than thirty years before it was finally published.
Download or read book Scripting the Nation written by Katherine H Terrell and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines literary and historiographical scholarship to examine Scottish writers who created a literary-cultural nationalist project by appropriating and subverting English literary models.
Download or read book Scottish Poetry of the Sixteenth Century written by Various and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Scottish Poetry of the Sixteenth Century" by Various. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book History of Scottish Poetry written by David Irving and published by . This book was released on 1971-10-01 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quines written by Gerda Stevenson and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singers, politicians, a fish-gutter, queens, a dancer, a marine engineer, a salt seller, sportswomen, scientists and many more – Quines celebrates and explores the richly diverse contribution women have made to Scottish history and society.
Download or read book Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
