Sydney Goodsir Smith: A Centenary Appreciation

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This chapter reworks a short centenary assessment of Smith’s achievements published in the Times Literary Supplement in November 2015. Locating Smith in the Scottish tradition of the divided literary self, it explores the paradoxical emergence of an English-educated upper-middle class New Zealander as a Scots language poet with a flair for evoking the street life of a far from genteel Edinburgh. It notes the co-existence in Smith’s work of, on the one hand, broad democratic sympathy and breezy conviviality, and, on the other, an austere classicism and high modernist tendency towards literary allusiveness. The essay laments the obscurity into which the work of an engaging, bracing, endlessly entertaining poet has fallen.

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