Description
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780714550817
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Description:
The premature death of Sydney Goodsir Smith at the age of fifty-nine, while this volume of his Collected Poems was in production, deprived the world of one of the major personalities in twentieth-century British literature.
The poems included in this volume, mostly written in Scots dialect - from Skail Wind , first published in 1941, to the moving poems of his maturity and the gentle, philosophical poems of his later years - show us the journey of a man who understood the world only too well.
ISBN: 9780714550817
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Description:
The premature death of Sydney Goodsir Smith at the age of fifty-nine, while this volume of his Collected Poems was in production, deprived the world of one of the major personalities in twentieth-century British literature.
The poems included in this volume, mostly written in Scots dialect - from Skail Wind , first published in 1941, to the moving poems of his maturity and the gentle, philosophical poems of his later years - show us the journey of a man who understood the world only too well.