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PUBLISHER: Carcanet Press Ltd

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781857542530

RRP: £25.00

PAGES: 608

PUBLICATION DATE:
December 5, 1996

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Collected Translations

Edwin Morgan

This collection includes Edwin Morgan’s Mayakovsky translated into Scots, and his Voznesensky, Pasternak and Vinokurov. There are the Italians and the French – Leopardi, Quasimodo, Montale, Guillevic, Prevert and Michaux; and also Heine, Lorca, Cernuda, Brecht, Enzensburger and Braga.

Edwin Morgan

Edwin Morgan was born in 1920 and educated at the University of Glasgow. He became lecturer in English there and retired as titular Professor in 1980. His recent books include ‘Collected Poems'(1990), ‘Crossing the Border: Essays'(1990), and his translation into Scots of Rostand’s ‘Cyrano'(1992). ‘Sweeping Out the Dark’ appeared in 1994.

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