Background
Morgan, Edwin George was born on April 27, 1920 in Glasgow, Scotland. Son of Stanley Lawrence and Margaret McKillop (Arnott) Morgan.
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With "Sweeping out the Dark" Carcanet celebrates 21 years of publishing Edwin Morgan's poems, prose and translations. Morgan's work, with its Scottish and European perspectives, is at once sophisticated and popular. He brings the lessons of Continental and Anglo-American Modernism together in a unique aesthetic; his work and example - as poet, essayist, translator - have proven serviceable for writers in Scotland and throughout the English-speaking world. The work in this volume, his first since the "Collected Poems" (1990) which marked his 70th birthday, shows him to be as inventive and engaging as ever. The political changes of recent years, urban violence, squalor and community, an America of the (troubled) mind, all find a place in a book which gives news of where we are, where we are going. The translations - of Claudian, of Michelangelo and Leopardi and Montale, of Pushkin to Blok and Mayakovsky, of Jozsef, of Aigi - enhance this book.
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( Featuring poems written over a span of more than 50 yea...)
Featuring poems written over a span of more than 50 years, this collection of Edwin Morgan's poetry focuses on two contrasting themes: poems centered on life in his home city of Glasgow and those about his fascination with science and space. Edwin Morgan reads the poems himself, and Professor Rodercik Watson provides commentary.
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ A.D.: A Trilogy On The Life Of Jesus Christ Edwin Morgan Carcanet, 1875 Drama; General; Bible; Christian drama, English; Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Drama / General; Drama / Religious & Liturgical
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MACCAIG * MORGAN * LOCHHEAD This book contains a selection of the finest work from three of Scotland's best-known and best-loved poets: Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead. They have fascinated and charmed thousands of readers and listeners across Europe and America with the energy, humour and compassion of their vision. MacCaig's memorable celebrations of the physical world and the tragic-comic note of many of his short lyrics contrast strikingly with Morgan's poems on the modern world and city life. Liz Lochhead writes with an alert and sensitive eye on personal relationships and women's experience of them. The book provides an invaluable introduction to modern Scottish poetry and to the poets who are arguably its greatest practitioners.
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Edwin Morgan was appointed Poet Laureate of Glasgow in 1999, and many of these poems reflect the life of the city both now and in the past. But equally the poetry moves to other places and other worlds. A sequence of poems about a demon allows the mind to expatiate on a wide range of subjects, social, psychological, philosophical. Some of the poems have been set to music, both jazz and classical. In many ways it is a book of voices and observation, a book of accessible storytelling.
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There is something profligate in the range and quality of Morgan's work as a translator. He does the labour of ten writers, and with blithe sprezzatura, partly at least because his own work nourishes itself from the poetry of other lands and ages. It is part of the necessary mechanism that Morgan, as a Scot, employs to define his place as a European, to escape the tonal and cultural limitations which England can imply. Collected Translations includes six decades of work. Readers will find here Morgan's celebrated Mayakovsky done into Scots, his Voznesensky, Pasternak and Vinokurov. There are the Italians and the French—Leopardi, Quasimodo, Montale, Guillevic, Provert and Michaux; and there is Heine, and Lorca, Cernuda and Brecht and Enzensberger and Braga. And much, much more.
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( In A Voyage', which opens Edwin Morgan's new book, he t...)
In A Voyage', which opens Edwin Morgan's new book, he takes a cinematic risk, evoking the journey of the human sperm from ejaculation to fertilization. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996, the poem opened new possibilities on the air as it does on the page. It belongs with Morgan's poems of space exploration, celebrating the chanciness and heroism of this most primal risk, and with his poetry of science. It also belongs with his love poems, performing a comprehensive synthesis of concerns. Three sequences complete this ambitious book. Beasts of Scotland' was commissioned by the Glasgow International Jazz Festival and set to music by the saxophonist Tommy Smith. Like The Five-Pointed Star', written for the Burns Bicentenary of 1996, Beasts' shows how commissioned, occasional poetry can at once honor and transcend its occasion. The title sequence of fifty triplet poems considers the consequences to reality of notions of virtual reality'. Once again Morgan displays his versatility and his rooted passion for language, for place and for real people living in a modern world that can merit celebration, laughter and (however hard-won) joy. No wonder his work, with its Scottish and European perspectives, is at once sophisticated and popular.
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Morgan, Edwin George was born on April 27, 1920 in Glasgow, Scotland. Son of Stanley Lawrence and Margaret McKillop (Arnott) Morgan.
Master of Arts, University Glasgow, 1947. Doctor of Letters, Loughborough University, 1981. Doctor of Letters, University Glasgow, 1990.
Doctor of Letters, University Edinburgh, 1991. Doctor of Letters, University St. Andrews, 2000. Doctor of Letters, Heriot-Watt University, 2000.
D. University, Stirling University, 1989. D. University, University Waikato, 1992. M. University, Open University, 1992.
Assistant lecturer, U. Glasgow, Scotland, 1947-1950; lecturer, U. Glasgow, Scotland, 1950-1965; senior lecturer, U. Glasgow, Scotland, 1965-1971; reader, U. Glasgow, Scotland, 1971-1975; titular Professor of English, U. Glasgow, Scotland, 1975-1980; professor emeritus, U. Glasgow, Scotland, since 1980. Visiting professor Strathclyde U., 1987-1990.
( Featuring poems written over a span of more than 50 yea...)
( MACCAIG * MORGAN * LOCHHEAD This book contains a selec...)
( In A Voyage', which opens Edwin Morgan's new book, he t...)
(Edwin Morgan was appointed Poet Laureate of Glasgow in 19...)
(First Edition September 1979 published in an edition of 6...)
(With "Sweeping out the Dark" Carcanet celebrates 21 years...)
( There is something profligate in the range and quality ...)
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
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With Royal Army Medical Corps, 1940-1946.