Bannockburns

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Edinburgh University Press, Jan 14, 2014 - Literary Criticism - 280 pages
Explores the literary-cultural background to Scottish nationalism and how writers have set out in poetry, fiction, plays and on film the ideal of Scottish independence from 1314 to today. Publication coincides with the 700-year anniversary of the Battle o
 

Contents

Introduction
1
1 Writing Bannockburn
20
2 Burns and Bannockburns
57
3 Beyond Scotland
97
4 Difficult Modern Scots
133
5 Voting for a Scottish Democracy
184
Notes
238
Index
272
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Robert Crawford's seven collections of poetry include A Scottish Assembly (1990) and Full Volume (2008). His biography of Robert Burns, The Bard (2009) won the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award, His other books include Scotland's Books (2007) and On Glasgow and Edinburgh (2013). Professor of Modern Scottish Literature and Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews, he is writing a biography of T. S. Eliot.

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