Robert Garioch

Robert Garioch (birth name: Robert Garioch Sutherland, born May 9, 1909 in Edinburgh, † 26 April 1981) was a Scottish poet, who in 1981 won the Cholmondeley Award.

Life

After attending the Royal High School Garioch studied at the University of Edinburgh and was after graduation worked as a teacher in England and Scotland. His literary debut came in 1933 with the surrealist, written in verse play The Masque of Edinburgh, published in expanded form in 1954. His first publications as written in collaboration with Sorley Maclean Seventeen Poems for Sixpence (1940 ) and Chuckie on the Cairn (1949 ) published handprinted. During the Second World War he did his military service in the British Army and was temporarily in German POW camps.

His later works included Selected Poems (1966 ), The Big Music ( 1971) and Collected Poems (1977). In his poems Garioch, which was in 1981 awarded the Cholmondeley Award took advantage of the Scots language Scots of the vernacular up to the lofty literary style and expression of feelings. His poetic style was particularly influenced by Robert Fergusson and is particularly evident through the sonnet written by him beyond the grave Fergusson and the dedicated this poem The Muir.

In 1975, the autobiographical novel appeared Two Man and a blanket, in which he described his experiences while a prisoner of war. In addition Garioch also worked as a translator and translated various works of Pindar, Hesiod and written in Latin pieces Jephtes and Baptiste by George Buchanan in the Scottish, but also Anglo-Saxon elegies and Italian poems of the 19th century.

Publications

  • Made in Scotland 1974
  • Collected poems of Robert Garioch, 1977
  • Collected Poems, 1980

External links and sources

  • Publications ( openlibrary.org )
  • Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Edinburgh 2002, pp. 581, ISBN 0-550-10051-2
  • Writer ( Edinburgh)
  • Author
  • Literature ( English )
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Poetry
  • Novel, epic
  • Translator
  • Teacher
  • Scotsman
  • Briton
  • Born in 1909
  • Died in 1981
  • Man
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