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THE INTERNATIONAL COMPANION TO SCOTTISH POETRY
edited by Carla Sassi

The 19 chapters in this book cover Scottish poetry from the #medieval to the modern day, & explore influences & interrelations between English, #Gaelic, #Latin, #OldNorse & #Scots. Available worldwide from all good bookshops & online via Project MUSE

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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/companions/ic3/

CONTENTS Series Editors’ Preface Acknowledgements A Note on the Text Introduction (Carla Sassi) Part 1: Languages and Chronologies Early Celtic Poetry (to 1500) (Thomas Owen Clancy) Scots poetry in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (R. D. S. Jack) Poetry in Latin (Roger Green) Poetry in the Languages and Dialects of Northern Scotland(Roberta Frank, Brian Smith) The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Sìm Innes, Alessandra Petrina) The Eighteenth Century (Ronald Black, Gerard Carruthers) The Nineteenth Century (Ian Duncan, Sheila Kidd) The Poetry of Modernity (1870–1950) (Emma Dymock, Scott Lyall) Contemporary Poetry (1950–) (Attila Dósa, Michelle Macleod) Part 2: Poetic Forms The Form of Scottish Gaelic poetry (William Gillies) Scots Poetic Forms (Derrick McClure) The Ballad in Scots and English (Suzanne Gilbert)
Contents (continued) Part 3: Topics and Themes Nature, Landscape and Rural Life (Louisa Gairn) Nation and Home (Carla Sassi, Silke Stroh) Protest and Politics (Wilson McLeod, Alan Riach) Love and Erotic Poetry (Peter Mackay) Faith and Religion (Meg Bateman, James McGonigal) Scottish Poetry as World Poetry (Paul Barnaby) The Literary Environment (Robyn Marsack) Endnotes Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index