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Iain Crichton Smith

EnglishJanuary 1, 1928 – October 15, 1998Poetry

Scottish poet who wrote in both English and Scottish Gaelic. His verse explores the tension between the Calvinist culture of the Hebrides and the secular modern world.

Works

  • The Long RiverRiver as metaphor for time, change, and inner life→
  • Deer on the High HillsPoems of meditation set in mountain and wild highland landscapes→
  • Love Poems and ElegiesLyric poems expressing love, loss, and emotional elegy→
  • A LifeAutobiographical sequence tracing personal growth and transformation→
  • Collected PoemsComplete poems of a Scottish Gaelic poet writing in English→

Related

Sorley MacLean·Norman MacCaig·George Mackay Brown
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