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.
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Corrected manuscript of poem of Iain Crichton Smith, "Returning Exile".
With typescript of the poem.
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.
Manuscript of poem of Iain Crichton Smith, "The Ladder of Experience".
Papers of, and relating to, Iain Crichton Smith.
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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