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	BBC - Writing Scotland - Place - Norman MacCaig
		Norman MacCaig was born in Edinburgh in 1910.
		MacCaig's mother was from Scalpay, Harris and the Gaelic heritage inherited on visits to his mother's family on the islands was to have an enduring effect on MacCaig.
		Norman MacCaig’s poetry began as part of the New Apocalypse Movement, a surrealist mode of writing which he later disowned turning instead to more precise, often witty observations.
	www.bbc.co.uk /scotland/arts/writingscotland/learning_journeys/place/norman_maccaig (463 words)

	Norman MacCaig Biography
		Norman MacCaig (14 November 1910 — 23 January 1996) was a Scottish poet.
		MacCaig was born in Edinburgh and divided his time, for the rest of his life, between his native city and Assynt in the Scottish Highlands.
		MacCaigs first two books were deeply influenced by the New Apocalypse movement of the thirties and forties, one of a number of literary movements that were constantly coalescing, evolving and dissolving at that time.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/MacCaig_Norman.html (516 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Norman MacCaig
		Norman MacCaig (14 November 1910 — 23 January 1996) was a Scottish poet.
		MacCaig was born in Edinburgh and divided his time, for the rest of his life, between his native city and Assynt in the Scottish Highlands.
		MacCaig's first two books were deeply influenced by the New Apocalypse movement of the thirties and forties, one of a number of literary movements that were constantly coalescing, evolving and dissolving at that time.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Norman_MacCaig (665 words)

	BBC - Writing Scotland - Norman MacCaig
		MacCaig's formal education was firmly rooted in the Edinburgh soil: he attended the Royal High School and then Edinburgh University where he studied Classics.
		During the war MacCaig refused to fight because he did not want to kill people who he felt were just the same as him.
		MacCaig’s life and poetry was principally divided into two parts, represented by two locales.
	www.bbc.co.uk /scotland/arts/writingscotland/writers/norman_maccaig (454 words)

	Norman MacCaig, A Scottish Poet, 85 - New York Times
		Norman MacCaig, whose spare and disciplined verse made him one of Scotland's most esteemed poets, died on Tuesday in Astley Ainslie Hospital, where he was being treated for injuries from a fall this month.
		MacCaig said he wrote his first poem at Royal High School in Edinburgh for a class assignment, figuring that a poem wouldn't take as many words as an essay.
		MacCaig's images came from the natural world, and he was especially fond of the mountainous country around Loch Assynt in northwestern Scotland.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEFD81F39F935A15752C0A960958260 (167 words)

	Pga1
		In order to remember Norman MacCaig it was necessary to travel that byway for a moment to draw a brief sketch of a different world beyond a guttural accent that rolls its Rs.
		MacCaig was the Edinburgh man, the Lowlander to Brown’s Orkney Norse and Smith’s Hebridean Gael.
		MacCaig may well have belonged by that time to a literary establishment but he still remained a maverick who could delight undergraduates in tutorials or at open lectures where he would come and speak about his interests in poetry.
	www.poetrykit.org /pkl/tw3/pga1.htm (2092 words)

	Norman MacCaig - Books From Scotland
		Poet Norman MacCaig was born in Edinbugh but shared his time between the capital and Assynt in Sutherland.
		MacCaig's life and poetry were principally divided into two parts, represented by two locales - his home city of Edinburgh provided contrast with his holiday home in Assynt, a remote area in north-west Scotland where he spend much time, especially in the summer months.
		Norman MacCaig, who died in 1996, is one of the most popular contemporary poets in English.
	www.booksfromscotland.com /Authors/Norman-MacCaig (261 words)

	Norman MacCaig
		Norman MacCaig was born in Edinburgh, on 14 November 1910.
		For almost all of his life, MacCaig divided his time between Edinburgh and Assynt in the north-west Highlands: the landscape of the latter in particular is a recurring theme of his poetry.
		At one end of the scale, he was a friend and sparring partner of both Hugh MacDiarmid, the reinventor of Scots verse, and Sorley MacLean, the poet responsible more than anyone else for the revival of Gaelic, as well as other major poets of the period, such as Robert Garioch and Sidney Goodsir Smith.
	www.geocities.com /william_brodie/maccaig/backgr.html (709 words)

	EESE Degott "No extra words"
		It is typical for this situation that a poet such as Norman MacCaig should have received very little international attention despite the fact that he has received numerous awards, the latent being the most coveted poetry prize in England, the 'Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry'.
		MacCaig's early poems are characterised by an excess of metaphors in rhyming stanzas.
		MacCaig's basic principle of honesty towards oneself and others, controlled feelings expressed in a clear form and his commitment to everyday experience, are all reminiscent of Philip Larkin.
	www.uni-erfurt.de /eestudies/eese/articles/degott/2_95.html (2443 words)

	The Hindu : Literary Review / Tribute : Essentiality of form
		When Norman MacCaig died in 1996, his death represented more than just Scotland losing one of its great literary talents since MacCaig was widely seen as the nation’s foremost living poet.
		MacCaig as a person is difficult to prise apart from his art since much of his writing “relates to himself and his being in the cosmos, as if he is trying to see where he fits in and learn what he has to contribute”.
		MacCaig said, ‘the poem…comes easily and quickly and pretty often with no correction at all.’ He was a ‘hit and miss’ poet who wrote prolifically and discarded what he did not like.
	www.hindu.com /lr/2007/09/02/stories/2007090250070400.htm (974 words)

	EESE Degott "No extra words"
		It is typical for this situation that a poet such as Norman MacCaig should have received very little international attention despite the fact that he has received numerous awards, the latent being the most coveted poetry prize in England, the 'Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry'.
		MacCaig's early poems are characterised by an excess of metaphors in rhyming stanzas.
		MacCaig's basic principle of honesty towards oneself and others, controlled feelings expressed in a clear form and his commitment to everyday experience, are all reminiscent of Philip Larkin.
	webdoc.gwdg.de /edoc/ia/eese/articles/degott/2_95.html (2443 words)

	The Scottish Poetry Library
		Norman MacCaig was born in 1910 in Edinburgh, of a lowland father and a highland mother.
		He was appointed Fellow in Creative Writing at Edinburgh in 1967, and in 1970 he became a reader in poetry at the University of Stirling.
		For most of his life, MacCaig divided his time between Edinburgh and Assynt in the north-west Highlands: the landscape of the latter in particular is a recurring theme of his poetry.
	www.spl.org.uk /poets_a-z/maccaig.html (226 words)

	"Assisi" by Norman MacCaig Essay \| Student Essays
		Norman MacCaig seems to have been inspired to write "Assisi" following an intense, emotional experience that he seems to have had when he visited the town.
		MacCaig uses imagery to good effect in this work.
		"Assisi" by Norman MacCaig from BookRags Student Essays.
	www.bookrags.com /essay-2004/1/19/112746/213 (154 words)

	Norman MacCaig: Introduction
		Norman MacCaig (1910-1996) was one of the major Scottish poets of the twentieth century.
		I've a special enthusiasm for MacCaig because he's one of the only poets I've come across who can write about the Highland landscapes and capture their balance of light and dark, of beauty with death — and because, like him, I'm fond of frogs.
		The background section includes a brief biography and some notes on MacCaig's place in Scottish literary history, as well as on the places in Scotland with which he's associated.
	www.jacobite.org.uk /maccaig (368 words)

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