Self and Otherness in Norman MacCaig’s Poetry
No other Scottish poet has concerned himself more thoroughly than Norman MacCaig (1910-1996) — the author of such poems as “Ego,” “Other Self,” “Other self, same self,” and many more in the same vein — with the problematic issue of the subject and his relations to both reality and to his own multip...
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2011
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| Sažetak: | No other Scottish poet has concerned himself more thoroughly than Norman MacCaig (1910-1996) — the author of such poems as “Ego,” “Other Self,” “Other self, same self,” and many more in the same vein — with the problematic issue of the subject and his relations to both reality and to his own multiple avatars or projections. “Other self” (Collected Poems 95) is such a case in point that it deserves full quoting: My inmost creature, Caliban perhaps, Perhaps St Francis (at least, a s... |
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