Papers of Norman Alexander MacCaig, 1910-1996, primary school teacher and poet
- Reference:GB 559 MS 8, MS 9, MS 37, MS 78, MS 80, MS 81
- Dates of Creation:1971-1992
- Name of Creator:
- Language of Material:English
- Physical Description:0.29 metres
Scope and Content
- Poems (typescript) c1974-1976
- Correspondence 1981
- Personal papers c1992
- Correspondence on literary matters 1980-1992
- Booklets or poems presented by various authors to MacCaig 1980-1986
- Typescript collection of poems by Bryan Walters 1984-1985
- 16 typescript poems, 525 copies of poems, list of 58 poems, with A Daylight Art for Norman MacCaig by Seamus Heaney 1971-1992
Administrative / Biographical History
Norman Alexander MacCaig (1910-1996 ), poet, was born in Edinburgh and educated at the Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh where he studied classics. His father was a chemist and his mother was born in Scalpay, Harris, Scotland. MacCaig was a dedicated primary school teacher for almost 40 years. His two anthologies Far Cry (1943 ) and The Inward Eye were said to put him in the New Apocalypse school but he later disowned these poems when his Collected Poems were published in 1985 . Other collections include: The Sinai Sort (1957 ), A Round of Applause (1962 ), Measures (1965 ), A Man In My Position (1969 ), The White Bird (1973 ), The Equal Skies (1980 ), A World of Difference (1963 ), Voice-Over (1988 ) and Collected Poems (new ed, 1990 ). He was the first fellow in creative writing at the University of Edinburgh (1967-1969 ) and (after retiring from school-teaching) lectured in English Studies at the University of Stirling (1970-1979 ). He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1986 .
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Fonds level description compiled by H M Kemp and Alan Borthwick, Scottish Archive Network project, 10 May 2002.
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