Collected Poems : Introduction by Hugh MacDiarmid

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Author: Smith, Sydney Goodsir PoetryPublished on 24 April 2025 by Alma Books Ltd (Calder Publications Ltd) in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 269 pages196 x 128 | 380g The premature death of Sydney Goodsir Smith at the age of fifty-nine 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 verse collections of his maturity and the gentle, philosophical compositions of his later years – show us the journey of a man who understood the world only too well, and are a testament to the inventive genius of his mind.Contains notes and a full glossary. Show more