The Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry was edited by Hugh MacDiarmid, and published in 1940. From the introduction:
The difference … between this anthology and all previous anthologies of Scottish poetry — is that some little effort has been made to present an "all-in view" of Scottish poetry and in particular to give some little representation to its Gaelic and Latin elements.
It contained a number of ballads, and other anonymous verse; and translations from Latin and Gaelic. The introduction also makes the case for Lallans as a poetic language, contra Edwin Muir.
The book was given a positive review in 1941 by Louis Macneice, who ranked it with the Golden Treasury of Irish Verse, by Lennox Robinson.
Poets included in The Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry
Douglas Ainslie - Marion Angus - John Barbour - Patrick Birnie - Mark Alexander Boyd - Dugald Buchanan - George Buchanan - Robert Burns - Thomas Campbell - Helen B. Cruickshank - John Davidson - Gavin Douglas - William Drummond of Hawthornden - William Dunbar - Jean Elliot - Robert Fergusson - William Fowler - Robert Graham of Gartmore - Alexander Gray - Henry the Minstrel - Robert Henryson - James Hogg - Violet Jacob - James I of Scotland - Arthur Johnstone - Andrew Lang - Lady Anne Lindsay - William Livingston (poet) (Uilleam Macdhunleibhe) - Iain Lom - Sir David Lyndsay - Hugh Macdiarmid - Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair - Ronald Campbell Macfie - James Pittendrigh Macgillivray - Duncan Ban MacIntyre - A. D. Mackie - Alexander Mair - Sir Richard Maitland - Alexander Montgomerie - James Graham, Marquis of Montrose - Charles Murray - Will H. Ogilvie - David Rorie - William Ross - Alexander Scott - Sir Walter Scott - Donald Sinclair - John Skinner - Alexander Smith - William Soutar - Robert Louis Stevenson - Muriel Stuart - Rachel Annand Taylor - James Thomson (B.V.)
See also
References
- Community in Modern Scottish Literature. Brill. 12 May 2016. p. 117. ISBN 978-90-04-31745-1.
- Barbara Korte; Ralf Schneider; Stefanie Lethbridge (2000). Anthologies of British Poetry: Critical Perspectives from Literary and Cultural Studies. Rodopi. pp. 202–. ISBN 90-420-1301-X.
- Tom Walker (2015). Louis MacNeice and the Irish Poetry of His Time. Oxford University Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-19-874515-0.
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