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 14 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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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