Edwin morgan biography
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Edwin Morgan (poet)
Scottish poet and essayist
Edwin George MorganOBE FRSE (27 April 1920 – 19 August 2010)[1] was a Scottish poet and translator associated with the Scottish Renaissance. He is widely recognised as one of the foremost Scottish poets of the 20th century. In 1999, Morgan was made the first Glasgow Poet Laureate. In 2004, he was named as the first Makar or National Poet for Scotland.
Life and career
[edit]Morgan was born in Glasgow and grew up in Rutherglen. His parents were Presbyterian. He convinced his parents to finance his membership of several book clubs in Glasgow. The Faber Book of Modern Verse (1936) was a "revelation" to him, he later said.[2]
Morgan entered the University of Glasgow in 1937. He studied French and Russian, while self-educating in "a good bit of Italian and German" as well.[2] After interrupting his studies to serve in World War II as a non-combatantconscientious objector with the Royal Arm
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Edwin Morgan (1920–2010) led a remarkable and wide-ranging creative life. He published 25 collections of his own poetry, and translated hundreds of Russian, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French and German poems too. He also wrote plays, opera libretti, radio broadcasts, journalism, book and drama reviews, literary criticism, and artworks. His work continues to be published, produced, taught and celebrated.
Some insights into Edwin Morgan’s poetry from biographer and friend James McGonigal:
Edwin Morgan is a poet for…
Glasgow
What he loved about the city was its energy, industrial inventiveness, humour and crowded streets. He warmed to its humanity, shared its sorrows, wrote against scarring deprivation, recovered its history (real and imagined), and projected several Glasgows into the future. Poems worth checking out include ‘The Starlings in George Square’, ‘Trio’, ‘In the Snack-bar’, ‘Glasgow 5 March 1971’, ‘Death in Duke Street’, ‘The Second
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Biography
Edwin Morgan 1920-2010
Many voices, many languages
Born in 1920, and first published in the 1950s, namn Morgan produced an extensive body of work. Endlessly curious and open-minded, he experimented with the language of machines as well as translating from a variety of European languages. He was a poet who was willing to give a voice to everything around him, whether it was an apple, the Loch Ness Monster, a cancer cell or the source of the Big Bang.
Edwin Morgan's poetry fryst vatten also marked by an acceptance of change and an exhilarating energy. In the 1960s he became involved with the international Concrete Poetry movement, publishing his first major collection The Second Life (1968). The title of his 1973 collection, From Glasgow to Saturn, indicates both the scope of his subject matter, and his interest in science fiction.
A life
"I was born in Glasgow and have lived most of my life there, and whatever image the city has to the outside world, to me it un