Scottish Texts: The Poetry of Edwin Morgan (National 5).
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. He attended the University of Glasgow, left to join the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1940, returned to the university in 1946, and remained there as a lecturer and professor until his retirement in 1980.
About Edwin Morgan. Edwin Morgan was born in Glasgow and lived there throughout his long life, apart from his war years in Egypt and the Lebanon. His work is rooted in his knowledge and love of Glasgow and Scotland, but he was also deeply interested in international developments in poetry.
Edwin Morgan has always been interested in many different areas, some of which include languages, technology, art, and film; he began to travel widely in the 1950s. He translated poetry from the Russian, Hungarian, French, Italian, Latin, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and other languages.
Edwin Morgan marked his 90th birthday in April 2010 with the publication of a new collection of poetry, Dreams and Other Nightmares: New and Uncollected Poems 1954-2009 (2010). Morgan died a few months later, on 19 August 2010.
Overview. Glasgow Sonnet (1) is the first in a series of poems Morgan wrote about Glasgow and Scotland. Morgan was always intrigued about the outside world and internationalist in outlook, He was.
Edwin Morgan 1920 - 2010 Morgan was Glasgow's first Poet Laureate 1999-2002, and the first to hold the post of Scots Makar, created by the Scottish Executive in 2004 to recognise the achievement of Scottish poets throughout the centuries.
Edwin Morgan Archive online resources Following these sessions with pupils and teachers, the Scottish Poetry Library has developed eight resources for teachers. Each focuses on a particular poem, with background notes, questions about and prompts for discussing the poem, using the poem as a model or starting-point for pupils' own writing, and further activities linked to other subject areas.