Sydney Goodsir Smith, Poet

Richie McCaffery is an independent researcher in the field of Scottish literature, as well as a published poet, with his most recent collection being Passport (2018). He has a PhD (2016) in Scottish literature from the University of Glasgow.

Acknowledgments and a Note on the Poems

Notes on Contributors



Introduction

  Richie McCaffery



1 Sydney Goodsir Smith: A Centenary Appreciation

  Patrick Crotty



2 Skail Winds and Scattered Personalities: The Formation of Identity in Sydney Goodsir Smith’s Early Poetry

  Emma Dymock



3 ‘My Elder Brother in the Muse’: Sydney Goodsir Smith and Hugh MacDiarmid

  Margery Palmer McCulloch



4 Refraction, Intertexts and Diegesis in Sydney Goodsir Smith’s under the Eildon Tree

  Christopher Whyte



5 Nationalism in the Poetry of Sydney Goodsir Smith

  J. Derrick McClure



6 ‘Huntress, Slayer, White Unmortal Queyne’: Women in the Work of Sydney Goodsir Smith

  Monika Szuba



7 ‘Order and Adventure’: Sydney Goodsir Smith’s Translations

  Stewart Sanderson



8 Sydney Goodsir Smith: Gangrel Rymour, European Scot

  Tom Hubbard



9 Unreal Edinburgh: From Li Po to Kynd Kittock

  John Corbett



10 Reveries of a ‘Gangrel Scriever’: Gowdspink in Reekie and Oliver Goldsmith

  Mario Relich



11 ‘Your maist inebriant savant’: A History of Sydney Goodsir Smith’s Carotid Cornucopius

  Richie McCaffery



12 The Merrie Life and Dowie Death of Colickie Meg: An Unpublished Carotidian Drama

  Paul Barnaby



13 Sydney Goodsir Smith’s the Wallace in Context

  David Robb



14 Sydney Goodsir Smith, Artist and Art Critic

  Alan Riach and Alexander Moffat



Selective Glossary of Sydney Goodsir Smith’s Scots Words



Annotated Bibliography of Publications by and about Sydney Goodsir Smith



Index