Having been rejected for national service on medical grounds, he had various jobs during the war and moved to Cornwall in 1943, where he was able to live rent-free in a caravan. Inspired by Graham’s poetry, the young Glasgow poet James Burns Singer pitched his tent in a neighbouring field, and for a while, took up the role as a notably critical acolyte to the elder poet. Graham received an Atlantic Award in 1947 and spent the year 1947-48 lecturing at New York University. Moving to London in 1948, he met T.S. Eliot who took his fourth book of poems, The White Threshhold, for Faber and Faber and they remained his publisher thereafter. How does it feel when the person you love the most is already gone? Nordbrandt creates an accurate representation about the grief that follows a loved one’s death. You are gone. The new book includes a previously unpublished fragment of a poem written by Owen, found in his editor’s notes for an edition of The Hydra and a fragment that Owen left in an autograph book. His second collection in 1957 was well received; he published five more in the 1960s. He ‘talked about the Celtic feeling for form which he derived from Gaelic forebears’ (Calder). His poems are infused with a passion for clarity (possibly derived from his classical education) and, paradoxically, gained in this respect from his move away from formal verse in the 1960s to free verse. Mary Anne Evans – better known by her pen name George Eliot – was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She was one of many authors to be inspired by the city after a visit to Edinburgh.

Written from the monster’s perspective, this poem describes the abduction of a child from his home. The ending is left ambiguous, forcing you to make your own assumptions about the child’s fate. You knew I was coming for you, little one, Dark poetry also appeals to both poets and readers by allowing them to contemplate their darker sides, which often leads to personal epiphanies. On a less personal level, such works immortalize situations, thoughts, and emotions that should not be silenced or forgotten.

Frykman, Erik, "Unemphatic Marvels": A Study of Norman MacCaig's Poetry, Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1977. This famous quote from Scottish poet and author Tobias Smollett refers to Edinburgh’s Enlightenment of the 18th century. Beautiful city of Edinburgh, most wonderful to be seen; with your ancient palace of Holyrood and Queen’s Park Green; and your big, magnificent, elegant New College; where people from all nations can be taught knowledge.” From a Window in Princes Street - to M.M.M'B - Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland - Edinburgh Castle, Johnston Terrace, Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh EH1 2, UK

I wanted to know what he was doing, where he was going, who was he meeting and how the geography and environment of Edinburgh, this city of Enlightenment helped to propel his thinking and his writing. Such as might suit the spectre's child.......): It was a natural attribute of such a character as the supposed hermit, that he should credit the numerous superstitions with which the minds of ordinary Highlanders are almost always embued. A few of these are slightly alluded to in this stanza The River Demon, or River-horse, for it is that form which he commonly assumes, is the Kelpy of the Lowlands, an evil and malicious spirit, delighting to forebode and to witness calamity. He frequents most Highland lakes and rivers; and one of his most memorable exploits was performed upon the banks of Loch-Vennachar, in the very district which forms the scene of our action: it consisted in the destruction of a funeral procession, with all its attendants. The "noontide hag," called in Gaelic Glas-lich, a tall, emaciated, gigantic female figure, is supposed in particular to haunt the district of Knoidart. A goblin dressed in antique armour, and having one hand covered with blood, called, from that circumstance, Lham-dearg, or Red-hand, is a tenant of the forests of Glenmore and Rothemurcus. Other spirits of the desert, all frightful in shape, and malignant in disposition, are believed to frequent different mountains and glens of the Highlands, where any unusual appearance, produced by mist or the strange lights that are sometimes thrown upon particular objects, never fails to present an apparition to the imagination of the solitary and melancholy mountaineer.Norman MacCaig’s poetry began as part of the New Apocalypse Movement, a surrealist mode of writing which he later disowned turning instead to more precise, often witty observations. He was great friends with Hugh MacDiarmid and other Scottish poets he met with in the bars of Edinburgh to debate, laugh and drink. Although he was never persuaded by his literary friends to write in Scots, he was respected by friends such as MacDiarmid as having made an important contribution to literature. I believe that is because he had been teaching these kids at Tynecastle, it was 1917 and he could see the way the war was going. These boys were the fallen generation. On the fleeter foot was never tied...): The present brogue of the Highlanders is made of half-dried leather, with holes to admit and let out the water; for walking the moors dry-shod is a matter altogether out of question. The ancient buskin was still ruder, being made of undressed deer's hide, with the hair outwards, a circumstance which procured the Highlanders the well-known epithet of Red-shanks.