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  SLAINTE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Born in Wellington, New Zealand on 25th October 1915, Sydney Goodsir Smith's father was an army medical officer, and his mother was Scottish.
Now viewed by some as an equal with Hugh MacDiarmid as a poet of the Scottish Renaissance, Goodsir Smith quickly adopted Scots for his poetry, appropriating many archaicisms and delving deep into the late medieval tradition of Scottish makars for stylistic inspiration.
By turns rumbustious, tender and tragic, it is the best example of his ability to combine a wide range of emotions and tone, of his talent at evoking atmosphere, at poking fun at himself, and at creating a realistically fragmented sliver of human experience.
www.slainte.org.uk /scotauth/smithdsw.htm   (514 words)

  
 William Dailey Rare Books Poetry in English
The lack of a picture on the frontispiece and its replacement by a poem was a poke at F.E. Murray, who had published a volume of his own poetry in the same year and had included a frontispiece photo of a naked boy, presumably not of Barford’s liking.
Born in Nauvoo, Missouri, Coolbrith was the niece of the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith.
Smith remarks he was "the best literary spokesman for encouraging romantic love within and without the schoolwalls." Young, The Male Homosexual in Literature, 813.
www.daileyrarebooks.com /poetry.htm   (11816 words)

  
 Scottish Literature - MSN Encarta
The picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, especially Roderick Random (1748) and Humphry Clinker (1771), together with the novels of sentiment produced by Henry MacKenzie, in particular The Man of Feeling (1770), were the most important contributions to Scottish 18th-century fiction.
Scottish poetry from the 1930s onwards was divided between those who followed MacDiarmid’s views, such as Sydney Goodsir Smith, who wrote in a Scots deriving from the Makars, and Robert Garioch, who used Edinburgh dialect on the model deriving from Fergusson, and those who followed Muir’s example, including W.
Sorley MacLean, one of the greatest modern Gaelic poets, can also be seen as belonging to this group insofar as his poems were usually presented with his own English translations, though MacLean’s insistence on writing in Gaelic made his views on language closer to those of MacDiarmid.
uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576426_2/Scottish_Literature.html   (2750 words)

  
 Textualities: Two Roberts and a Bruce
Like Dunbar, much of Fergusson when first read aloud is unforgettable, and these studies, bringing together several enthusiasts from three continents, form the first body of such since Sidney Goodsir Smith's delightful little book in 1952.
Smith 'topped-and-tailed' his with two new poems, and Crawford honours this precedent by including ten commissioned poems which thread through its 'guid braid claith'.
May this not be the last word on unfortunate Fergusson for another fifty years, as it is a ringing reassessment of his background, craft, sense of place and influence.
textualities.net /writers/non-fiction-reviews/brownnm02.php   (626 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Opinion - Comment - Pint of honour over Sidney's pub count   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Alas, that has not been the case, which is maybe more a reflection on Edinburgh than on Sidney.
Haunts such as Milne’s and The Abbotsford don’t have the literary cachet they used to, although Ian Rankin must have shares in the Coxfork in Bung Strait, as he is forever promoting it.
Sidney would declare he was away home by rail as he left the Drummond Hotel.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /comment.cfm?id=1105792004   (1133 words)

  
 Edinburgh Festivals - Time is right for literary head-butts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Thus Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sidney Goodsir Smith (despite being New Zealand-born), Neil Gunn and, occasionally, Edwin Muir, were in.
We happily adopt JK Rowling as an honorary Scot, because Harry Potter was conceived in an Edinburgh café, and she has chosen to stay.
Ali Smith, now living in Cambridge, whose last novel The Accidental, is set in Norfolk, says Scotland "never leaves you".
www.edinburgh-festivals.com /news.cfm?id=1176372006   (1083 words)

  
 National Galleries of Scotland | Online Collections » Artist Search » Poets' Pub (Norman MacCaig, Sorley ...
Poets' Pub (Norman MacCaig, Sorley MacLean, Christopher Murray Grieve, Iain Crichton Smith, George Mackay Brown, Sidney Goodsir Smith, Edwin Morgan, Robert Garioch, Alan Bold and John A. Tonge)
Moffat's group portrait is an imaginary vision of the major Scottish poets and writers of the second half of the twentieth century gathered around the central figure of Hugh MacDiarmid (1892 - 1978).
From left to right, they are: Norman MacCaig, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley Maclean, Iain Crichton Smith, George Mackay Brown, Sydney Goodsir Smith, Edwin Morgan and Robert Garioch.
www.nationalgalleries.org /collections/artist_search.php?objectId=8217   (277 words)

  
 Author-ity goes too far Sunday Herald, The - Find Articles
Ms Janowitz, who was so hungry she could have eaten deep-fried ferret, spied what looked like an edible object in the hot cabinet and was intent on investigating further until she was told it was a Scotch egg as ancient as Skara Brae.
At which point, I recalled Sidney Goodsir Smith's remark about the Oxford.
A Liz, Smith and James Participating in a quiz at the Edinburgh Book Festival with Liz Lochhead, Ali Smith and Clive James, I learned a useful new word which should be engraved on the hearts of all Fringe reviewers.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20030817/ai_n12583949   (1016 words)

  
 Stony Brook University - Official Athletic Site
G 3-9 S40 Cangelosi, Nick pass intercepted by Goodsir, Ray at the SBU20, Goodsir, Ray return 12 yards to the SBU32 (TEAM).
G 2-10 G36 Cangelosi, Nick pass complete to Baker, Sidney for 1 yard to the GU37 (Barzar, Adam).
G 1-10 S43 Cangelosi, Nick pass complete to Baker, Sidney for 3 yards to the SBU40 (Sterling, K.).
goseawolves.cstv.com /sports/m-footbl/stats/2005-2006/game3.html   (4214 words)

  
 William Dailey Rare Books, Ltd. - Poetry in English of the 20th Century
The play was written for the dedication of the bird sanctuary in Meriden, New Hampshire, and Genthe took the photos during the first performance there on September 12, 1913.
Red cloth, gilt lettered and ornamented spine, gilt ruled borders and ornamentation to front board, partially unopened, spine and upper borders sunned, tail corners bumped, light wear to extremities, owner’s and bookseller’s stamps, occasional marginalia in pencil, otherwise very good.
The book is dedicated to a young boy, Norman, and includes a photographic frontispiece of a young boy, which was incorporated, most likely, merely for the prurient interest it might arouse.
www.daileyrarebooks.com /0902poetry20C.htm   (12563 words)

  
 Words Without Borders -> Scots: The Auld an Nobill Tung
Over the next decade, he and his circle of poets gathered words and expressions from various Scots dialects, creating what came to be known as Lallans (Lowlands) or Synthetic Scots.
MacDiarmid and the new Lallans poets—William Soutar, Alexander Scott, Douglas Young, Sidney Goodsir Smith—turned to the glorious poets of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the great Makars, for linguistic inspiration, resuscitating expressions and grammar that had fallen out of use centuries earlier.
The effect was often powerful and brilliant, though sometimes very arcane: “gesserant sails," for instance, recasts the medieval word gesserant, “chain-mail armor” to mean sparkling—even though the modern Scots reader might not make the connection or recognize the word.
www.wordswithoutborders.org /article.php?lab=ScotsEssay   (1761 words)

  
 Textualities: The Life of George Mackay Brown
While there is no end to the number of stories and anecdotes and apocryphal tales told about each and every one of the other poets of the second wave of the Scottish Literary Renaissance, literary gossip about GMB has always been very thin on the ground.
Many people can regale with tales about MacCaig and Sidney Goodsir Smith and Robert Garioch.
Surrounding MacDiarmid, progenitor of the first wave and patron of the second, there is, of course, an entire industry.
textualities.net /writers/non-fiction-reviews/listerm18.php   (929 words)

  
 The Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Symphony In One Movement has had many performances since it was written in 1963 and it has been recorded.
His one-act opera, Full Circle, to a libretto by Sidney Goodsir Smith was commissioned by STV and produced by Scottish Opera to considerable acclaim, and it was produced on television.
In his younger years, Robin had been a keen rock-climber and pot-holer and he was known in his later years as a gourmet.
www.theherald.co.uk /59949.shtml   (903 words)

  
 Pirate copy of Clive Young's guide to Scots
It received exactly the same type of criticism 70 years ago, showing that deep-seated prejudice is difficult to dislodge.
As Lallans writer Sidney Goodsir Smith commented: We've come intil a gey queer time (gey = very) Whan screivin Scots is near a crime (screivin = writing) (h) How many dialects of Scots are there?
Souter, Garioch, Young, Goodsir Smith wis aw hied makars o the 'Lallans' skuill tha follaed.
www.geocities.com /cliveyoungscots   (9263 words)

  
 20th Century Poets
It would take a series longer than this brief sampling to look at all the Scots poets of this century.
Names such as Sidney Goodsir Smith, Robert Garioch, Norman McCaig, George Mackay Brown, Iain Crichton Smith, Edwin Morgan and a host of others come tumbling in a splendid cavalcade through my mind.
Some of them write in Scots and some in English and some in both and there are Gaelic poets too : the modern Northem Muse makes full use of all the languages of Scotland.
www2.arts.gla.ac.uk /SESLL/STELLA/STARN/crit/NORTHERN/20thpoet.htm   (1621 words)

  
 Untitled Document
MacAlister was followed, more or less, by Douglas Young, MacDiarmid by Goodsir Smith.
He even faithfully renders Voznesensky's studies in cool with suitably farout language, of beats and bums, and birds from restaurants, since he would sooner traduce his own voice than that of the original.
In a review of Robin Fulton's translation of Blok's 'Twelve', Morgan alludes to the totally different approach to the poem taken by Sidney Goodsir Smith in his (Scots) version, and comments that there is more than one valid route up the mountain.
www.thesyllabary.com /8EdwinM.htm   (3816 words)

  
 Georgetown 10, Stony Brook 7 :: Boxscore
RECEIVING: Georgetown-Baker, Sidney 4-40; Craft, Brent 3-27; Mitchell, Kenny 3-18; Beacher, H. Davis, Emir 1-10; Slayton, Marcus 1-0.
Georgetown: 5-Scoffern, Brad, 7-Baker, Sidney, 9-Mitchell, Kenny, 22-Shotwell, M., 23-Slayton, Marcus, 24-Parker, Chris, 27-Barbiasz, Matt, 29-Cherepski,Kevin, 30-Lancaster, John, 32-Dismukes, J., 33-Carter, Erik, 39-Umar, Nicholas, 44-Cooper, Matt, 46-Cooper, Kris, 52-Smith, Stephen, 56-Greene, Mike, 60-Zerbato, Justin, 80-Beacher, H., 90-Landers,Crishon, 91-Obiako, Nnamdi, 96-White, Brad.
Receiving No. Yds TD Long ----------------------------------- Baker, Sidney 4 40 0 20 Craft, Brent 3 27 0 16 Mitchell, Kenny 3 18 0 11 Beacher, H. Davis, Emir 1 10 0 10 Slayton, Marcus 1 0 0 0 Totals...
guhoyas.cstv.com /sports/m-footbl/stats/092505aaa.html   (4924 words)

  
 Wir Ain Leid - What is Scots?
MacDiarmid found himself among many contemporaries writing both prose and poetry.
Among them Douglas Young, Sidney Goodsir Smith, Robert Garioch and Robert Mclellan.
Many of these writers were accused of artificially reinventing a language because they recoursed to Scots Dictionaries and older literary works to increase and developed their already substantial native Scots vocabularies.
www.scots-online.org /grammar/whits.htm   (1876 words)

  
 Robert Burns: NINE INCH WILL PLEASE A LADY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A pirated book, `The Merry Muses of Caledonia', was published in Edinburgh in 1800 but only one copy remains.
James Barke and Sidney Goodsir Smith finally produced a definitive version of Burns' bawdy in 1965.
McNaught describes it as `anonymous, but evidently old; perhaps brushed up a little.' Nevertheless, in its present form it is probably Burns' own work.
www.dgdclynx.plus.com /poetry/poets/nine.html   (323 words)

  
 Body
His only hobby was reading, which he did hour upon hour.
Among his friends he numbered Hugh McDiarmid, Sidney Goodsir Smith, the artist Westwater, and Ezra Pound, but despite his intellectual friends he always had time to talk to young people and could make local history, both ancient and modern, come to life.
He lent me many books on history and later he and I became firm friends, but more change in the family was to come before that.
www.tulbol.demon.co.uk /pam/Pam-2.htm   (5981 words)

  
 Macdonald Pittodrie House : Pitcaple, by Inverurie, near Aberdeen Hotels : Aberdeenshire : Hotel Review Scotland GUIDE ...
Ownership is shared with Theo Smith, your gentlemanly host, a delightful man, although he’ll blush when he reads that: but why so?
He was of course a writer or makkar contemporary with Sorley Maclean and Sidney Goodsir Smith.
The drizzle had beaten us outside, so Theo Smith (the hotel owner) had allowed us to move into the Reception Hall.
www.hotelreviewscotland.com /hotel.asp?ID=87   (3415 words)

  
 Rampant Scotland Newsletter - 29 June 2002
A plaque, commemorating the link with the late Norman McCaig was unveiled last weekend at Kirkaig Bridge near Lochinver in Sutherland.
McCaig, who died in 1996, was a contemporary of other Scottish poets such as Hugh MacDiarmid and Sidney Goodsir Smith.
He spent the summer in the west of Sutherland for many years and regarded it as a "home from home." The plaque was unveiled by his granddaughter.
www.rampantscotland.com /let020629.htm   (6153 words)

  
 faberanth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Emergence of first serious Scots poets formed by MacDiarmid; Douglas Young, Sidney Goodsir Smith; the so-called saicont swaw.
The different parts of the mind are of different ages, their concord may be uneasy.
The countenancing of animals and myth brings him close to poets such as Ted Hughes, Ken Smith, David Harsent, and Jeremy Reed.
www.pinko.org /30.html   (11300 words)

  
 Northeast Conference -
RECEIVING: Georgetown-Baker, Sidney 4-40; Craft, Brent 3-27; Mitchell, Kenny 3-18; Beacher, H.
Stony Brook-Michitsch, Dan 7-6; Barzar, Adam 5-5; Richards, R. 5-4; Mounter, Mike 3-3; Harris, James 1-5; Rivera, Francis 2-3; Merkle, Chris 2-3; Goodsir, Ray 2-2; Sterling, K. 2-2; Broome, Shawn 1-2; Casale, Anthony 0-3; Cosentino, Mike 1-1; Fields, C. 1-0; Smith, Matt 0-1; Tarasiewicz, J. Stewart, Hasan 0-1; Brown, Kyle 0-1; Halonski, Kevin 0-1.
24-14-1 118 1 25 0 Receiving No. Yds TD Long ---------------------------------------- Baker, Sidney 4 40 0 20 Craft, Brent 3 27 0 16 Mitchell, Kenny 3 18 0 11 Beacher, H. Davis, Emir 1 10 0 10 Slayton, Marcus 1 0 0 0 Totals...
www.northeastconference.org /Sports/fball/2005/sbugtown.asp   (4147 words)

  
 English Books > Literature: Texts > Works By Individual Poets: 16th To 18th Centuries > Index > World Retail Store
Burns, Robert; Smith, Sydney Goodsir; Paperback; Code: BE-0571068359
Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke : Vol II.
Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke : Vol I. Poems, Translations, and Correspondence
www.worldretailstore.com /index/BE-CTCD1.html   (552 words)

  
 Byre Books Culture
Issue devoted to The State of Scotland, with work by Bold, Riach, Gray, Herdman, Neill, Cameron, Kerevan, Black, Ransford, Gunn, Crighton Smith, Marroni, Murray, MacNeacail, Perrie, Ross, McMillan, Noble, Law, Mackay, Fox, Ogilvie, McSeveney, Sutton, Bruford, McGavin, Whyte, Stephen, Fletcher, Byatt, Hastie and Calder Stapled booklet, good.
Works by Crawford, McWilliam, Crichton Smith, Conn, Ross, Mitchison, Warner Flintoff, Hamilton, McLellan, Glenday, Croshaw, Elphinstone, Jamieson, Burns, MacFhionnlaigh.
Works by Crichton Smith, Dutton, Wilson, McDonald, Fyfe, MacKinnon, Simpson, Smith, Burns, Bryan, Stewart, Miller, Haynes, Bolton, MacLean, Sim, Silver, Davies, Mowat.
www.byrebooks.co.uk /acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Culture_12.html   (3126 words)

  
 Byre Books Culture
Works by Mudge, Muir, Caird, Soukup, Carlin, Allen, Dodds, Dunnett, Rae, Imray, fulton, Stephen, Paterson, Smith, Stewart, NicGumaraid, Jenkins, Bowd, Dixon.
Introduction by Eric Linklater, contains work by Norman McCaig, Sidney Goodsir Smith, Hamish Henderson, Hugh Macdiarmid, among others.
The first sizeable collection of the work of this fine poet, with an introduction by Sydney Goodsir Smith VG in good DJ (chipped, small closed tears).
www.byrebooks.co.uk /acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Culture_29.html   (3162 words)

  
 Kennys Bookshop & Art Galleries Ltd - Shop Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Multinational corporation in the world economy - direct investment in perspective - Edited by Sidney E. Rolfe [and] Walter Damm.
Rates of return: class I line-haul railways of the United States, 1921-1948.
Sydney Goodsir Smith's "Under the Eildon Tree": An Essay - Eric Gold
www.kennys.ie /stock/itemsearch162.shtml   (6270 words)

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