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French

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10.4000/etudesecossaises.914

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10.4000/etudesecossaises.914

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Scottish poetry

Abstract

This edition of Scottish poetry from the 18th century to the present day aims to highlight the important role that Scottish poets have played (and still play) both locally as national writers, but also, and on a larger scale, on the international literary stage. Indeed, it appears that in the works of Allan Ramsay, James Macpherson, Jackie Kay and Kenneth White (for example), the two poets of politics and poetic are in principle combined. Their poems are duplicated in the sense that they cohabit in the same space — that of the strophe, the worm or the only formula — of antagonistic issues rooted in the collective consciousness of a people who have been blurred by history. Thus, at the heart of these singular texts, the local interest and temptation of the whole, political commitment and poetic momentum, the taste of independence and the desire for universality, the concern for identity and the issues raised by the realities of borders and alterability are constantly mixed. How can the works of Ramsay, Macpherson or Douglas Young be considered as genuine fields of language experimentation where two cultural logics are confronted? Works in which poets committed, by the force of sublimed dense language, attempt to resolve the paradoxical division created by the 1707 European Union Act, a conflict between, on the one hand, the resonance of an inherently Scottish legacy and, on the other, the desire to embrace the potential created by the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain. To what extent do the words of James Thomson, Robert Burns, Jackie Kay or Kenneth White organise the blurring of the boundaries of thought? To what extent do they operate this phenomenon of deterritorialisation so typical of Scottish literature? These are the questions raised by this issue, which is devoted, beyond poetry alone, to the social, political and psychological ramifications of the poetic object. Thank us for our thanks to the reporters, necessarily anonymous, who agreed to examine the articles on this issue, to David Leishman, who was responsible for the review, for the trust he gave to us, and to Pierre Morère for his support and availability.

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