The Correspondence Between Hugh MacDiarmid and Sorley MacLean : : An Annotated Edition / / Susan Wilson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Wilson, Susan,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 7 B/W illustrations

This is both the first complete annotated edition of the letters exchanged by these major twentieth-century Scottish poets and the first major exploration of their long friendship and literary association. Spanning nearly fifty years, from 27 July 1934 to 23 July 1978, this engaging correspondence o...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Dedication
• Part 1 Editorial Apparatus
• Chapter 1 “Forging a Friendship”
• Chapter 2 “Cultural Nationalism – Politics and Poetry”
• Chapter 3 “Modern Makars”
• Chapter 4 “Epistolary Discourse and the Legacy of the Letters”
• Part 2 The Letters
• A Note on the Sources
• Source Abbreviations
• A Note on the Text and Transcription
• The Letters
• References
• Appendix A “Scots steel tempered wi’ Irish fire”:1 An Interview with Sorley MacLean Edinburgh, 18 July 1986
• Appendix B Review of MacDiarmid’s translation of The Birlinn of Clanranald as published in The Times Literary Supplement 4 January 1936
• Index