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Mary Symon: Collected Poems
Mary Symon’s Scots poems, especially those dealing with the impact and aftermath of the Great War, have been much admired and widely anthologised, yet her collected work has been unavailable in print for the best part of a century. This new annotated version includes a preface by Fred Freeman and a critical introduction by Ian Spring that places her in the context of the Scots language revival of the early twentieth century and compares her work to contemporaries such as Charles Murray, Violet Jacob and, of course, Hugh MacDiarmid.
Symon Family
Papers of the Symon family comprising correspondence of Sir Josiah Symon and those collected by his widow Lady Mary Symon, publications by Sir Josiah Symon, biographical and genealogical information, photographs of the family and their properties at Manoah and Auldana, a Chinner caricature of Sir Josiah Symon (1923), plus papers collected by Miss Kilmeny Symon relating to her activities as secretary of Camp Libraries, Prisoner of War Help Committee, in London. In 1993 a framed collection of 477 badges from World War I, assembled in memory of Sir Josiah Symon, was donated to the Mortlock Library of South Australiana.
Scottish War Poets
A Scottish lost treasures collection of four Scottish poetry anthologies all strongly influenced by the First World War. Bundled by subject matter rather than author, the anthologies complement each other to create a compelling collection to commemorate the anniversary of the First World War. "Palimpsest's eClassics series, Scottish Lost Treasures, shows us how much poorer Britain's cultural heritage would be without Scottish writers ... The best example I've seen of how curation and presentation can bring old books to new audiences" - The Observer "This strikes me as a fantastic venture, and one I hope will expand further" - Professor Willy Maley, University of Glasgow, Scotland on Sunday
War and Verse, Poetry and Prose of World War One
War and VersePoetry and Prose of World War One, As seen in the Wartime Press.Published on the 11th November 2018, marking the 100th Anniversary when the guns fell silent on the battle fields of the First World War.
Doric
The dialect of North-East Scotland, one of the most distinctive and best preserved in the country, survives as both a proudly maintained mark of local identity and the vehicle for a remarkable regional literature. The present study, after placing the dialect in its historical, geographical and social context, discusses in some detail a selection of previous accounts of its distinctive characteristics of phonology and grammar, showing that its shibboleths have been well recognised, and have remained consistent, over a long period. Passages of recorded speech are then examined, with extensive use of phonetic transcription. Finally, a representative selection of written texts, dating from the eighteenth century to the present and illustrating a wide variety of styles and genres, are presented with detailed annotations. A full glossary is also included. This study clearly demonstrates both the individuality of the dialect and the richness of the local culture of which it is an integral part.
Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature
This volume considers the major themes, texts and authors of Scottish literature of the twentieth and, so far, twenty-first century. It identifies the contexts and impulses that led Scottish writers to adopt their creative literary strategies. Moving beyond traditional classifications, it draws on the most recent critical approaches to open up new perspectives on Scottish literature since 1900. The volume's innovative thematic structure ensures that the most important texts or authors are seen from different perspectives whether in the context of empire, renaissance, war and post-war, literary genre, generation, and resistance. In order to provide thorough coverage, these thematic chapters are complemented by chronological 'Arcade' chapters, which outline the contexts of the literature of the period by decades, and by 'Overview' chapters which trace developments across the century in theatre, language and Gaelic literature. Taken together, the chapters provide a thorough and thought-provoking account of the century's literature.
Lakshmi’s Footprints and Paisley Patterns
Lakshmi’s Footprints and Paisley Patterns: Perspectives on Scoto-Indian Literary and Cultural Interrelationships is a unique collection of essays that comprehensively discusses the nature of interrelationship of India and Scotland spread over the last two centuries. It covers areas such as nature writing with an emphasis on Alexander Hamilton and Patrick Geddes, role of the formative history of Scottish Churches College, Disruption Movement in Scotland and Calcutta, rise of surveillance literature, dichotomy of Homeland and Hostland, Vidyasagar and Scottish transactions, Scottish missionary movement in Kalimpong, Scottish war literature, and interface of Scottish and Indian legal systems. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan or Bhutan)
Norlan Lichts
A collection of new poems in Scots by three prominent contemporary poets from Aberdeenshire
