Scotland's Harvest

Scottish Poetry and World War Two
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-67927-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 34, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 574 g

Reihe: SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature

This study is the first exploration of the impact of World War Two on Scottish poets of both the front line and the home front. World War One has always been thought of as a poet’s war, one of horror and futility. The poetry of World War Two, by contrast, has long languished in its shadow, though there was a much greater amount of it written. This book asks whether these poets felt they were grown for war or rather that they grew through war experience, with an emphasis on the possibilities of the future instead of cataloguing the senseless horror of the battlefield. How were the hopes of Scottish poets different from their English counterparts? How was their poetry different, and how did it impact on their later lives?

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCaffery, Richie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Growing for, or through, War?

PART 1: Combatants

1 ‘Mak siccar!’: Hamis h Henderson (1919–2002)

2 Committed and Confessional: Sorley MacLean (1911–1996)

3 ‘The Secret Hollow’: George Campbell Hay (1915–1984)

4 ‘Private Morgan’ and ‘Geerie’ the Kriegy: Edwin Morgan (1920–2010) and Robert Garioch (1909–1981)

5 The Second Rank: Other Scottish Poets in the Forces

PART 2: Non-Combatants

6 ‘The war for libertie!’ The Cases of Douglas Young (1913–1973) and Norman MacCaig (1910–1996)

7 The Home Front: Scottish Civilian Poets of World War Two

8 The Old Guard: Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978) and Edwin Muir (1888–1959)

9 ‘It does not mak siccar you ken aboot weemin’: Scottish Women Poets of World War Two

Conclusion: ‘The Harvest’

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Richie McCaffery is a freelance scholar and poet with a Ph.D in Scottish literature from the University of Glasgow. In 2020 he edited Sydney Goodsir Smith, Poet: Essays on His Life and Work (Brill, 2020).