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The Poetry of Scotland
736 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1995
About the author
Roderick Watson
42 booksRoderick Watson (born 1943) is a Scottish poet, born in Aberdeen. He is a professor emeritus in English Studies at the University of Stirling.
Watson was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, Aberdeen University and the University of Cambridge (Peterhouse), where his doctoral thesis was on the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid. He was later to write a critical study of MacDiarmid, whom he met and befriended as a student. Watson later taught at the University of Victoria in Canada, before coming back to Scotland and joining the University of Stirling.
He has written and lectured widely on Scottish literature and cultural identity, and served as General Editor of the Canongate Classics reprint series since the start of the project in 1987. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and is currently the co-editor (with Linda Dryden) of The Journal of Stevenson Studies.
His poetry has been widely anthologised and published in three main collections, Trio (1971), True History on the Walls (1977) and Into the Blue Wavelenths (2004).
Watson was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, Aberdeen University and the University of Cambridge (Peterhouse), where his doctoral thesis was on the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid. He was later to write a critical study of MacDiarmid, whom he met and befriended as a student. Watson later taught at the University of Victoria in Canada, before coming back to Scotland and joining the University of Stirling.
He has written and lectured widely on Scottish literature and cultural identity, and served as General Editor of the Canongate Classics reprint series since the start of the project in 1987. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and is currently the co-editor (with Linda Dryden) of The Journal of Stevenson Studies.
His poetry has been widely anthologised and published in three main collections, Trio (1971), True History on the Walls (1977) and Into the Blue Wavelenths (2004).
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