In one of the most famous love poems of all time ... That’s Liz Lochhead’s inspiration for View of Scotland/Love Poem. The poem combines Lochhead’s memories of Hogmanay in the 1950s and ...
No list of famous poems would be complete without a contribution ... Written down, Robbie Burns's proud use of the Scottish dialect could be perplexing for modern readers. But read with gusto ...
James Macpherson’s controversial Ossian poems caused a huge stir after they were published in the late 18th century. He was ...
The lecturer says the poetry of Mackintosh ... After studying classics at Oxford, Mackintosh joined the famous Scottish battalion, the Seaforth Highlanders. In May 1916, he led a successful ...
One of those was Black Nannie, the partner of Scottish ploughman William Smart, whose story has been discovered thanks to a ...
A 3D animation has been created of Robert Burns reciting one of his most famous poems. The latest technology was used to recreate the Scottish bard's face from a partial cast of his skull.
His poetry, written in Scots and English, drew inspiration from everyday life in Edinburgh, and he wrote his most famous work ...