Edwin Morgan (Poet)

Edwin George Morgan OBE FRSE (* April 27, 1920 in Glasgow, † 17 August 2010) was a Scottish poet and literary critic, the Cholmondeley Award and in 2000 the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry awarded in 1968.

Life

After schooling Morgan studied at the University of Glasgow and performed by prior military service during the Second World War, his alternative service in the Royal Army Medical Corps. At this time he wrote his first poems. After the war, he became in 1947 Assistant Lecturer in English at the University of Glasgow.

In the early 1950s he began his literary activity and published in 1952 with both The Vision of Cathkin Braes up his first volume of poetry, as well as a translation of the epic hero Beowulf poem. During his first lyrical work had a more introverted and gloomy, illuminated later works increasingly optimism and processed as in A Second Life (1968 ) and his homosexuality. He was awarded the Cholmondeley Award in 1968.

In 1975 he was appointed professor of English at the University of Glasgow and taught there until his retirement in 1980. At the same time, he gained a reputation as a translator of many prominent writers like Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin as well as Federico García Lorca and was a collection of these translations under the title Rites of Passage (1976 ) out. 1990 appeared in quick succession both - albeit incomplete - collection of his poems entitled Collected Poems and Crossing The Border, a collection of his most influential essays and literary criticism. Later works were highly acclaimed literary adaptation of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac in a demotic Glaswegian dialect and the translation of Racine's Phèdre by Jean into Scottish entitled Phaedra ( 2000).

Morgan, who in 1999 Poet Laureate of Glasgow, in 2000 also received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

Publications

  • Flower of Evil, 1943
  • The vision of Cathkin Braes, and other poems, 1952
  • Beowulf, 1967
  • Futura Emergent Poems, 1967
  • Gnomes, 1968
  • The second life. Poems, 1968
  • New English dramatists 14, 1970
  • Glasgow sonnets, 1972
  • Instamatic poems, 1972
  • From Glasgow to Saturn, 1973
  • Hugh MacDiarmid, 1976
  • August Platen. Selected Poems, 1978
  • Twentieth century Scottish classics, 1987
  • Nothing not giving messages, 1990

Background literature

  • R. Fulton: Contemporary Scottish Poetry, 1974
  • Marshall Walker: Edwin Morgan: an interview, 1977
  • Hamish Whyte: Edwin Morgan, 1980
  • Geddes Thomson: The poetry of Edwin Morgan, 1986
  • Colin Nicholson: Edwin Morgan: Inventions of Modernity, 2002
  • Rodney Stenning Edgecombe: Aspects of Form and Genre in the Poetry of Edwin Morgan, 2003
  • Chris Jones: Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth - Century Poetry, 2006

External links and sources

  • Literature by and about Edwin Morgan in the catalog that German national library
  • Publications ( openlibrary.org )
  • Background literature ( openlibrary.org )
  • Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Edinburgh 2002, pp. 1078, ISBN 0 550 10051 2
  • Writer (Glasgow )
  • Author
  • Poetry
  • Literature ( English )
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Essay
  • Literary critic
  • Translator
  • University teachers (Glasgow )
  • Officer of the Order of the British Empire
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • Scotsman
  • Briton
  • Born in 1920
  • Died in 2010
  • Man
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