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Norman MacCaig

Norman MacCaig

ScottishNovember 14, 1910 – January 23, 1996Poetry

Scottish poet whose witty, exact verse about the Highlands of Assynt and Edinburgh is among the finest in twentieth-century Scottish literature. He wrote without pretension or obscurity.

Works

  • Far CryEarly poems exploring Scottish landscape with vivid metaphor→
  • The Sinai SortCollection examining religious doubt and theological questions→
  • MeasuresPoems using precise measurement as metaphor for human understanding→
  • A Man in My PositionPersonal meditations on aging, position, and mortality→
  • Voice-OverLater work reflecting on voice, retrospection, and life changes→

Related

Sorley MacLean·George Mackay Brown·Iain Crichton Smith
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