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Edwin George Morgan OBE FRSE (27 April 1920 – 19 August 2010) 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.
Edwin Morgan. Scotland’s first official Makar in modern times, Edwin Morgan was endlessly inventive, inquiring, energetic, internationalist, and deeply committed to his home city of Glasgow. A book of poems in his honour, Unknown Is Best, was produced to celebrate Morgan’s eightieth birthday in 2000.
One of Scotland’s most beloved poets, and Glasgow’s first poet laureate, Edwin Morgan, was born in Glasgow and lived there for most of his life.
The immense body of work published by Edwin Morgan since 1952 might suggest an imperious project of cultural domination, but no one having the slightest acquaintance with Morgan’s poetry would think so: his writing offers an extremely rare combination of epic scope with lightness of touch.
28 de abr. de 2020 · The Scottish poet Edwin Morgan was born 100 years ago, and this week marks the the start of a year of celebration of the man and his work. It goes ahead in a virtual way, with public...
Edwin Morgan’s Favourite Poetry Saying: “Poets are the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.” – P.B. Shelley. The Scottish Poetry Library has published its Edwin Morgan Archive online. It contains a variety of resources for teachers, and readers: www.edwinmorgan.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
Born in 1920, and first published in the 1950s, Edwin 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.
