Refraction, Intertexts and Diegesis in Sydney Goodsir Smithâs Under the Eildon Tree

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The essay distinguishes two narratives in Smithâs sequence. The first concerns the love affair which ostensibly forms its subject matter, the second the writing of the sequenceitself, in the course of which they interact and interweave, even if there is no chronological overlap. Whyte discerns a repeated intervention, mirroring and refraction of competing voices, indicative of Smithâs difficulty in attaining unmediated, frank utterance, as well as of his âlastnessâ, his link to the French Decadent poets and to a tradition reaching back to the Scottish Makars and beyond. The âlastnessâ also implies a vivacious polemic with the leftist political commitment of fellow poets Somhairle MacGill-Eain / Sorley MacLean and Hugh MacDiarmid, from which Smith takes pains to distance himself.

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Sydney Goodsir Smith, Poet

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