Explores the literary-cultural background to Scottish nationalism and how writers have set out in poetry, fiction, plays and on film... Læs mere
Explores the literary-cultural background to Scottish nationalism and how writers have set out in poetry, fiction, plays and on film... Læs mere
Holding in balance the ecological and the technological, ancient and modern, Full Volume sings languages and cultures, people and habitats burgeoning on the brink of extinction.
Whether making versions of Cavafy or elegising fellow poet Mick Imlah, or writing how a father hands on a piece of marble to his son, Robert Crawford shows in Testament how poetry can... Læs mere
What is Religion? serves not only as an introduction to the different belief systems flourishing throughout the modern world, but asks us to consider how the very boundaries of faith might be drawn now and in the future.
Eliot wanted no biography written, but this book reveals him in all his vulnerable complexity as student and lover, stink-bomber, banker and philosopher, but most of all as an epoch-shaping poet struggling to make art among personal disasters.
Presents the glories of 15 centuries of Scottish literature. This book traces the development of literature in Scotland and explores the... Læs mere
Engaging with Zoroastrian, Chinese and Greek as well as with Scottish antecedents, Crawford’s poems have an arresting range and a lyrical energy. Ranging from Jerusalem to Iona,... Læs mere
What is Religion? serves not only as an introduction to the different belief systems flourishing throughout the modern world, but asks us to consider how the very boundaries of faith might be drawn now and in the future.
This book looks at the rise and fall of 'Britishness' in literature over the last three centuries. Arguing that for much of its history the subject of 'English Literature'... Læs mere
A study of the Scottish female writer and dramatist Liz Lochhead.