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Edwin Morgan: In Touch With Language By Edwin Morgan

Edwin Morgan: In Touch With Language by Edwin Morgan


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Edwin Morgan (1920-2010) is one of the giants of modern literature. In Touch With Language presents previously uncollected prose, with topics ranging from Gilgamesh to Ginsberg, cybernetics to sexualities, international literatures to the changing face of his home city of Glasgow. Everyone will find surprises and delights in this new collection.

Edwin Morgan: In Touch With Language Summary

Edwin Morgan: In Touch With Language: A New Prose Collection 1950-2005 by Edwin Morgan

I try to write something every day even though I am not writing poetry, just to get myself in touch with language.-Edwin Morgan

Edwin Morgan (1920-2010) is one of the giants of modern literature. Scotland's national poet from 2004 to his death, throughout his long life he produced an astonishing variety of work, from the playful to the profound.

Edwin Morgan: In Touch With Language presents previously uncollected prose - journalism, book and theatre reviews, scholarly essays and lectures, drama and radio scripts, forewords and afterwords - all carefully moulded to the needs of differing audiences. Morgan's writing fizzes with clarity and verve: the topics range from Gilgamesh to Ginsberg, from cybernetics to sexualities, from international literatures to the changing face of his home city of Glasgow. Everyone will find surprises and delights in this new collection.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Edwin Morgan's Prose

A: Local Journalism

A1. 'Byron: Poet or Hero?' (1958)

A2. 'Poetry in rock 'n roll sends me, says Edwin Morgan' (1961)

A3. 'An Egg-Head - But He Rode and Fought with the Wild Cossacks' (1961)

A4. 'Revolution and the Poet' (1965)

A5. 'Working one's passage on the ship of death, with an anarchist at the wheel' (1989)

A6. 'Border lines: English blind spots about Scottish writing' (2005)

B: Comparative Readings

B1. The Case of Hugh MacDiarmid (1962)

B2. Jean Genet: 'A Legend, To Be Legible' (1962)

B3. Close Reading and Closed Poems II: The Poets (1964)

B4. 'Signs and Wonders' (1965)

B5. Concrete Poetry (1968)

B6. The Poetry of the City (1996)

C: Translating

C1. Translation (1956)

C2. A note to the translation of Mayakovsky's 'Fiddle-Ma-Fidgin' (1962)

C3. 'The Young Russians' (1963)

C4. 'Japanese Poetry' (1964)

C5. 'Siberian Dam and Achilles Heart' (1967)

C6. 'Armenian Poetry' (1980)

C7. 'Be-Imaged Languages' (1989)

C8. The Third Tiger: The Translator as Creative Communicator (1992)

C9. Translation: An Interview with Marco Fazzini (1996)

D: Lecturing

D1. Provenance and Problematics of 'Sublime and Alarming Images' in Poetry (1977)

D2. Language, Poetry, and Language Poetry (1989)

D3. Kelpies, Nasturtiums, Polyhedrons, Mammuks, and Liripoops (1992)

D4. Long Poems - But How Long? (1995)

E: Performing

E1. That Uncertain Feeling (1958)

E2. Whither Poetry? (1960)

E3. 'Armstrong's Last Goodnight' (1964)

E4. 'Brechtian Rarity at Glasgow' (1967)

E5. 'Outstanding scenes in Brecht production' (1967)

E6. Introduction to New English Dramatists (1970)

E7. The Cowardly Bandits (Fumi Yamadachi) (2002)

F: Book Reviewing

F1. Graham's Threshold (1950)

F2. 'Caveman' (1966)

F3. 'Mailer Speaking for Himself' (1969)

F4. 'On Hugh MacDiarmid's Complete Poems 1920-1976' (1981)

F5. 'Roy Fisher' (1981)

F6. 'Tom Leonard' (1995)

F7. 'The Jagged Crystal' (1998)

G: Beginning and Ending

G1. Foreword: Alphabetical & Letter Poems: A Chrestomathy (1978)

G2. Glasgow: The Changing Face, 1958-68 (1984)

G3. Afterword: The Challenge of Weoeres (1988)

G4. Sandor Weoeres: Obituary (1989)

G5. Foreword: The Colonnade of Teeth: Modern Hungarian Poetry (1996)

G6. Introduction: And Thus Will I Freely Sing: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Writing from Scotland (1989)

H: Being Himself

H1. Transgression in Glasgow: A poet coming to terms (1997)

H2. A Roof of Fireflies (1998)

Editorial Principles and Endnotes

Additional information

GOR012769511
9781906841409
1906841403
Edwin Morgan: In Touch With Language: A New Prose Collection 1950-2005 by Edwin Morgan
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Association for Scottish Literary Studies
20200422
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