Smith, Iain Crichton (poet and author)
Dates
- Existence: 1928-1996. - 1996
Biography
Iain Crichton Smith was born in Glasgow, but his parents were both from the Isle of Lewis and the family moved back there in 1930.
Crichton Smith was educated at the Nicholson Institute (Stornoway) and the University of Aberdeen. He was a teacher by profession and taught at schools in Clydebank, Dumbarton and Oban until he retired in 1977 to pursue his writing career. Prolific, both in his native Gaelic and in English, he favoured exploring themes of island culture and religion. Though first and foremost a poet, he also produced novels, short stories, plays and criticism.
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
168 letters to George Mackay Brown.
Correspondents include Willa Muir, Iain Crichton Smith and Ian Hamilton Finlay.
168 letters to George Mackay Brown from various correspondents including Willa Muir, Iain Crichton Smith and Ian Hamilton Finlay.
'An t-adhar Ameireaganach, is sgeulachdan eile' (Inverness 1973), by Iain Mac a' Ghobhainn., 1973.
Corrected manuscript of poem of Iain Crichton Smith, "Returning Exile".
With typescript of the poem.
Correspondence, 1968-1972, of Charles King with the University of London Press.
Concerns King`s edition of "Twelve Modern Scottish Poets" (1971).
Includes letter of Iain Crichton Smith to Charles King, 1994.
Correspondence of and relating to Iain Crichton Smith.
Editorial correspondence concerning Donald Sinclair and Iain Crichton Smith for 'An tuil: anthology of 20th century Scottish Gaelic verse' (Polygon: Edinburgh, 1999) by Ronald Black., 1996-1999.
Includes scripts of two unpublished Gaelic novels of the Rev Ewen MacLean, Edinburgh, and photocopies of 'Leabhar nam Prannag', manuscript poems of Ian Paterson.
Iain Crichton Smith, translations from Sorley MacLean's 'Dain do Eimhir', ca. 1970
Verse translations by Iain Crichton Smith of a selection of poems of Sorley MacLean's 'Dain do Eimhir' (I-IV, VIII, XIV, XVII-XXIV, XXVII-XXXV, XXXVII, XLII-XLIII, XLV, XLVIII-L, LII, LIV-LV, LVII (3 versions). Iain Crichton Smith's translations were published in 1971.
Letters of Iain Crichton Smith to David Morrison., 1968, undated.
Correspondents include George Mackay Brown, Christopher Murray Grieve, Alexander Scott, and Sydney Goodsir Smith, on literary and personal matters.
Letters to, and audio-cassettes of interviews by, Raymond Ross, editor of "Cencrastus".
Interviewees and correspondents include Valda Grieve, Norman MacCaig, Sorley MacLean, Edwin Morgan, Iain Crichton Smith.
Letters to Ian Rankin of correspondents with surnames and corporate names beginning S-Y, and of unidentified correspondents., 1978-2018, undated.
Letters to Maurice Lindsay from various literary figures.
Correspondents include:
C M Grieve, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid
Neil M Gunn
Norman MacCaig
Iain Crichton Smith
Sydney Goodsir Smith
Douglas Young
Literary correspondence of Alastair Fowler.
Comprises circa 1000 letters and copies of letters from correspondents including George Mackay Brown, Edwin Morgan and Iain Crichton Smith.
'Maighstirean is ministearan' (Inverness, 1970), by Iain Mac a' Ghobhainn., 1970.
Manuscript of poem of Iain Crichton Smith, "The Ladder of Experience".
Papers of, and relating to, Iain Crichton Smith.
Publication file of Victor Gollancz Ltd, publishers, relating to 'Poems to Eimhir' by Sorley MacLean, translated by Iain Crichton Smith.
The file is mostly correspondence.
Publication file of Victor Gollancz Ltd, publishers, relating to 'Selected poems', by Iain Crichton Smith.
The file is mostly correspondence, but also includes agreements.
'The village' (Inverness, 1976), by Iain Crichton Smith., 1976.
Video tape of a recording of a poetry reading by Joy Hendry, Norman MacCaig, William Neill and Iain Crichton Smith.
Includes letters of Valda Grieve, Brian Merriken Hill, Henry Mair, William Neill and Jim C Wilson.
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