Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry

The Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry was edited by Hugh MacDiarmid, and published in 1940. From the introduction:

The difference … between this anthology and all previous anthologies of Scottish poetry — is that some little effort has been made to present an "all-in view" of Scottish poetry and in particular to give some little representation to its Gaelic and Latin elements.

It contained a number of ballads, and other anonymous verse;[1] and translations from Latin and Gaelic.[2] The introduction also makes the case for Lallans as a poetic language, contra Edwin Muir.

The book was given a positive review in 1941 by Louis Macneice, who ranked it with the Golden Treasury of Irish Verse, by Lennox Robinson.[3]

Poets included in The Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry

Douglas Ainslie - Marion Angus - John Barbour - Patrick Birnie - Mark Alexander Boyd - Dugald Buchanan - George Buchanan - Robert Burns - Thomas Campbell - Helen B. Cruickshank - John Davidson - Gavin Douglas - William Drummond of Hawthornden - William Dunbar - Jean Elliot - Robert Fergusson - William Fowler - Robert Graham of Gartmore - Alexander Gray - Henry the Minstrel - Robert Henryson - James Hogg - Violet Jacob - James I of Scotland - Arthur Johnstone - Andrew Lang - Lady Anne Lindsay - William Livingston (poet) (Uilleam Macdhunleibhe) - Iain Lom - Sir David Lyndsay - Hugh Macdiarmid - Alexander MacDonald - Ronald Campbell Macfie - James Pittendrigh Macgillivray - Duncan Ban MacIntyre - A. D. Mackie - Alexander Mair - Sir Richard Maitland - Alexander Montgomerie - James Graham, Marquis of Montrose - Charles Murray - Will H. Ogilvie - David Rorie - William Ross - Alexander Scott - Sir Walter Scott - Donald Sinclair - John Skinner - Alexander Smith - William Soutar - Robert Louis Stevenson - Muriel Stuart - Rachel Annand Taylor - James Thomson (B.V.)

See also

References
  1. Community in Modern Scottish Literature. Brill. 12 May 2016. p. 117. ISBN 978-90-04-31745-1.
  2. Barbara Korte; Ralf Schneider; Stefanie Lethbridge (2000). Anthologies of British Poetry: Critical Perspectives from Literary and Cultural Studies. Rodopi. pp. 202–. ISBN 90-420-1301-X.
  3. Tom Walker (2015). Louis MacNeice and the Irish Poetry of His Time. Oxford University Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-19-874515-0.


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