20th Century Scottish Poetry Anthology - Classic & Modern Scottish Poems for Literature Lovers, Students & Educators - Perfect for Book Clubs, Classroom Study & Gift Giving
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During the 1920s, Scottish poetry, personified by Hugh MacDiarmid, asserted its independence, denying the claim made by T. S. Eliot that all significant differences between Scottish and English literature had ceased to exist. It was an energetic ''No'' to provincialism, and a vigorous ''Yes'' to nationalism as an enabler of poetry. On its first appearance in 1992, the retrospective and organising vision of Douglas Dunn''s now-classic anthology revealed a profounder level of achievement in modern Scottish poetry - whether in Scots, Gaelic or English - than had been formerly acknowledged, and introduced an entire canon of writing to a wider readership, edited with discrimination and exemplary lucidity.
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With the exception of having four words removed from the title (The Faber Book of...), this is an unrevised, un-supplemented, un-re-prefaced reprint of the 1993 paperback edition of the 1992 The Faber Book of...etc. To protect the prospective buyer, why not keep the title? To increase the deception, this book does not have 480 pages as indicated on this Amazon page, but exactly the same number as the 1993 paperback version. The latter currently sells for 1p on Amazon, and is therefore a better buy. It is, or rather, was, a great anthology. But this is bad publishing.
