Penguin Book of Scottish Verse Imlah Mick
Penguin Book of Scottish Verse Imlah Mick The first anthology ever to offer a view of the entirety of Scottish historyExtending from the 6th century to the end of the 20th, and representing each of…
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Penguin Book of Scottish Verse Imlah Mick
The first anthology ever to offer a view of the entirety of Scottish historyExtending from the 6th century to the end of the 20th, and representing each of its stylistic currents with clarity and verve, The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse is an unprecedented collection. Throughout the volume, poetry in Gaelic, Latin and other languages is given in parallel text; poems in Scots are fully glossed. Acknowledged masters such as Robert Burns and Don Paterson are well represented, their work augmented by that of neglected and unknown writers.
With its comprehensive, lively Introduction, this unique anthology--mingling Highland and Lowland, the religious and the profane, poems by kings and crofters--is the definitive guide to the whole poetry of Scotland.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking