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Experiencing the Language of Ian Hamilton Finlay's Poetry

Experiencing the Language of Ian Hamilton Finlay's Poetry

Gavins, Joanna

Hardcover

General ReferencePoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

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ISBN10: 1399516604
ISBN13: 9781399516600
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Pages: 224
Language: English

Ian Hamilton Finlay is now recognised as one of the most important figures in Scottish literary history and as a world-leader in the concrete poetry movement. While he considered himself first and foremost a poet throughout his life, his work spans a far broader array of writing, visual art and gardening. In this book, Joanna Gavins presents a rigorous exploration of the linguistic and cognitive dimensions of Finlay's work, investigating what the poet termed the 'being of language'.

Spanning Finlay's diverse and prolific career, the text provides a critical framework for understanding the poet's varied creative outputs, from his earliest writings to the development of his world-renowned garden at Little Sparta in the Pentland Hills. An examination of the complex intersections between text, space, embodiment and cognition, this book moves beyond conventional analysis to explore how Finlay's language actively extends the mind into the physical landscape, transforming reading into a fundamentally context-dependent conceptual and physical experience.

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