Modern Scottish Poetry

First edition

Modern Scottish Poetry: An Anthology of the Scottish Renaissance 1920-1945 was a poetry anthology edited by Maurice Lindsay, and published in 1946 by Faber and Faber.[1]

It covered the Scottish Renaissance literary movement in Scotland, featuring works written in English, Scots and Gaelic,[1] and was important in bringing the Scottish poets of the time to wider international attention.[2]

The anthology went through subsequent editions published in 1966, 1976 and 1986.[3]

  1. ^ a b Tolley, A. Trevor (1986). The Poetry of the Forties. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719017087.
  2. ^ "Maurice Lindsay (broadcaster) (1918 - 2009)". Scottish Poetry Library. 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  3. ^ Barnaby, Paul; Hubbard, Tom (2007). Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Modern Transformations: New Identities (from 1918). Edinburgh University Press. p. 36. ISBN 9780748624829.