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  • Paperback: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Perth & Kinross Libraries (12 Oct 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1902831225
  • ISBN-13: 978-1902831220
  • Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.8 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Scots Magainze, April 2001

The introduction is rich in biographical material.


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Into a Room presents an edited selection of William Soutar's poems for a wider readership. Each Scots poem is annotated and the editors, Carl MacDougall and Douglas Gifford have written a full introduction. They argue that Soutar's work is truly eclectic and traditionally inspired from Dunbar, Henryson, the Makars and the Ballads.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Forget McDiarmid - read this!, 8 Aug 2002
By ARD13 (Perth, Scotland) - See all my reviews
William Soutar is one of the most unjustly neglected poets of the twentieth century. I may be biased, coming from just along the road from the house where he was born and died, but I consider him one of Scotland's greatest lyric poets.

The best thing about this collection is that it brings a range of Soutar's writing back into print. There are a few contendors for the worst thing about it. One is the arrangement; there is no indication of how the poems interrelate, by style, period or anything else. Another is the introduction, which is clearly addressed to those who are already familiar not only with Soutar's work but with the scholarship around it; it is clearly intended as a corrective to Hugh McDiarmid's introduction to the Collected Poems. Also there are numerous incomprehensible omissions.

But to the poems. Soutar was a master of his Lowland Scots dialect, brilliantly evoking love, sorrow, natural beauty - the usual - and, less predictably, comedy. His verse in standard English is not on the same level. Some of his songs have been set to music and others are crying out to be. Try his children's pieces (bairnsangs and whigmaleeries) as well.

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