A Summer in Skye

by Alexander Captain Smith

Overview

Alexander Smith (1830-1867) was a Scottish poet, and labeled as one of the Spasmodic School. His first job was in a linen factory as a pattern designer. His early poems appeared in the Glasgow Citizen. When his poetry had fallen out of favor, Smith turned his attention to prose, and published Dreamthorp: Essays written in the Country (1863) and A Summer in Skye (1865). After marrying a woman from Skye, Skye became to him the dearest spot on earth. It braced his powers of thought and action. The Introduction says "The book may fitly be described as a prose poem-an idealisation of those aspects of Skye life, scenery, and history which appeal to the poetical and historical imagination. Smith is anything but systematic in the treatment of his theme."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438534411
Publisher:	Book Jungle
Publication date:	03/09/2010
Pages:	150
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.32(d)

About the Author

Alexander Smith was an author, a poet, and the secretary of Edinburgh University. He is the author of Alfred Hagart's Household, City Poems, Dreamthorp, Edwin of Deira, A Life-Drama and Other Poems, and Sonnets on the Crimean War.

Editorial Reviews

"For the lover of the mountains, of surf, of moorland and river, for the lover of people as they were and as they are, for the lover of poetry of eternal truths, A Summer in Skye is the book to read."  —William F. Laughlan

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