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 Edwin George Morgan OBE (born April 27, 1920) is a Scottish poet and translator who is associated with the Scottish Renaissance. He is widely recognised as one of the foremost Scottish poets of the 20th century. In 1999, Morgan was made the first...
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 Yearbook of English Studies Remembering the Future: Edwin Morgan's Science Fiction Poetry.
01/01/2000: 6,147 words, approx. 21 pages By addressing in its first and last lines the fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz, whose Divan is one of the classics of that country, and maintaining a periodic dialogue with him, 'The New Divan', Edwin Morgan's ambitious and sometimes historical, sometimes pre-historical and futuristic 1970s... summary from source:
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 Critical Essay by Desmond Graham
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Whether in the individual poem, the sequence or the collection, Edwin Morgan makes a plurality of styles into a thoroughgoing eclecticism. At once unpretentious and daring his range of production over the past twenty-five years is almost worryingly wide. His wit has done as much as anything to make the "Concrete" and "Sound" poem respectable and accessible. His refusal to decry the contemporary or to set barriers between modes has led to poems using, for example, the terms of spa... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Michael Schmidt
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Poetry, Edwin Morgan says, should 'acknowledge its environment'. It can do this in the development of its themes, in its imagery—drawing from particulars of place and time—or in its approach to language, reproducing in the word order or in the word itself specific processes of the environment. In a sequence of poems called 'Interferences', for instance, the failure of language in various extreme circumstances is expressed in the deformation of certain words at the c... summary from source:
Critical Essay by John Wain
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[Morgan] makes statements, lots of them, and his poems are not ingenious but deeply intelligent. Since the death of Auden, who brought a tremendous range of speculation and knowledge into his poetry, Morgan seems to me to stand out almost unchallenged as a poet of ideas. In case I seem to be saying that Morgan is a poet like Auden, let me add at once that he has nothing like the same gift for the felicitous phrase and is altogether a heavier, more viscous writer. He resembles Auden only insofar as the two o...
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