Robert Crawford

(born 1959 - ) - Belshill, Lanarkshire

Robert Crawford

Robert Crawford is Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at St Andrews University, where he has taught since 1989. Originally from Lanarkshire, Crawford was educated at Glasgow and Oxford Universities, and has been writing since 1987. A founder editor of the magazine Verse, he is also a founding Fellow of the English Association, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

He has won two Scottish Arts Council Book Awards, and an Eric Gregory award in 1988. He has written numerous critical works on TS Eliot, Edwin Morgan, Douglas Dunn and other poets, as well his own collections of poetry - the first of which, A Scottish Assembly, was published in 1990. He has also edited anthologies, such as The Book of St Andrews and, most recently, Scotland's Books: The Penguin History of Scottish Literature.

His most recent book is a biography of Robert Burns, The Bard, which was published in January 2009.

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    The Bard: Robert Burns, A Biography - Hardback
    Published to mark the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns' birth, this biography paints a picture of a man fighting to maintain a sly sense of integrity in the face of overwhelming pressures
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    St Andrews has long played a central role in the religious, political and cultural life of Scotland. This selection of stories, poems and memoirs is a wonderful literary celebration of this venerable town which explores the multiple facets of its life and history.
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    Full Volume - Paperback
    Holding in balance the ecological and the technological, ancient and modern, 'Full Volume' sings languages and cultures, people and habitats burgeoning on the brink of extinction. From revved-up battle-cry to nervous whisper, these lyrical poems praise intricate abundance.
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    'Heaven-Taught Fergusson': Robert Burns's Favourite Scottish Poet - Paperback
    The ten specially commissioned poems in this book pay tribute (directly and indirectly) to Robert Fergusson, the poetic master who Robert Burns most loved, and continue a tradition of homage while sounding their own contemporary notes.
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    The New Penguin Book Of Scottish Verse - Paperback
    This anthology offers a view over the history of Scottish poetry, extending from the 6th century to the end of the 20th. It features poetry in Gaelic, Latin and Old English in translation, mingling Highland and Lowland, the religious and the profane, and poems by kings and crofters.
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    Scotland's Books: The Penguin History Of Scottish Literature - Paperback
    Stretching from the earliest written monuments during the Roman Empire to the thriving world of modern Scottish imaginative writing, this title is packed with research on some of the best works of a literature that extends far beyond the borders in which it was written.
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    The Scottish Invention Of English Literature - Paperback
    This work explores the origins of the teaching of English literature in the academy. It demonstrates how the subject began in 18th-century Scottish universities before being exported to America and other countries.
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    Selected Poems - Hardback
    Here is a distillation of the best work from one of Scotland's leading contemporary poets. Taken from his first six books, these poems confirm Robert Crawford as a poet of exhilarating energy. His work is richly nourished by his background.
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    The Tip Of My Tongue - Paperback
    This new collection of Crawford's poetry is a celebration of the world he lives in. These are poems that are convincingly earthed in the land and the language and yet unafraid of spiritual, even religious notes, and shot through with a humour and vitality that is engaging.

Bibliography

  • The Savage and the City in the Work of T. S. Eliot - 1987
  • A Story of the Spanish Armada (translator) - 1988
  • A Scottish Assembly - 1990
  • About Edwin Morgan (editor with Hamish Whyte) - 1990
  • Other Tongues: Young Scottish Poets in English, Scots and Gaelic (editor) - 1990
  • Sharawaggi: Poems in Scots (editor with W. N. Herbert) - 1990
  • The Arts of Alisdair Gray (editor with Thom Nairn) - 1991
  • Devolving English Literature - 1992
  • Reading Douglas Dunn (editor with David Kinloch) - 1992
  • Talkies - 1992
  • Identifying Poets: Self and Territory in Twentieth-Century Poetry - 1993
  • Liz Lochhead's Voices (editor with Anne Varty) - 1994
  • Literature in Twentieth-Century Scotland: A Select Bibliography - 1995
  • Talking Verse: Interviews with Poets (editor with Henry Hart, David Kinloch, Richard Price) - 1995
  • Masculinity - 1996
  • Robert Burns and Cultural Authority (editor) - 1996
  • Launch-Site for English Studies: Three Centuries of Literary Studies at the University of St Andrews (editor) - 1997
  • The God/Man/World/Triangle: A Dialogue between Science and Religion - 1997
  • The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945 (editor with Simon Armitage) - 1998
  • The Scottish Invention of English Literature (editor) - 1998
  • Spirit Machines - 1999
  • The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse (editor with Mick Imlah) - 2000
  • The Modern Poet - 2001
  • "Heaven Taught Fergusson": Robert Burns's Favourite Scottish Poet (editor) - 2002
  • Scottish Religious Poetry: An Anthology (editor with Meg Bateman and James McGonigal) - 2002
  • The Tip of My Tongue - 2003
  • Selected Poems - 2005
  • The Book of St Andrews (editor) - 2005
  • Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science 2006
  • Scotland's Books: The Penguin History of Scottish Literature - 2007
  • Full Volume - 2008
  • The Bard - 2009
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