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词条 Edith Anne Robertson
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  1. Biography

  2. Work

  3. Bibliography

  4. References

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Edith Anne Robertson (10 Jan 1883 – 31 Jan 1973)[1] was a Scottish poet who wrote in both the English and Scots tongues.

Biography

Edith Anne Stewart was born in Glasgow, to Jane Louisa Faulds and Robert Stewart, a civil engineer.[1] She attended the Glasgow High School for Girls.[1] Her family lived in Germany and in Surrey, England, during her childhood.

In 1919 she married the Rev. Professor James Alexander Robertson of Aberdeen, also the child of a Free Church Minister. They moved to Aberdeen, where James obtained a position as Professor of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology at the United Free Church College in Aberdeen. He wrote a number of well-received works on the New Testament, and was said to have been an effective preacher.

In 1938 James was appointed Professor of Biblical Criticism at the University of Aberdeen. He remained there until he was forced to retire in 1945 due to poor health.

James Alexander Robertson died in 1955. Edith lived on for almost twenty years.{{sfn|Papers of Edith Anne Stewart ...}}

Work

Edith Anne Robertson's work reflects her strong belief in Christianity and her interest in the culture and language of the north east of Scotland.

In 1930 she published Carmen Jesu Nazereni, a verse version of the gospels. She also published a life of Francis Xavier.

Later she published two collections of poems by Walter de la Mare and Gerard Manley Hopkins that she had translated into the Scots language.

She corresponded with many literary figures including Marion Angus, David Daiches, Flora Garry, Nan Shepherd, Douglas Young and Samuel Beckett.{{sfn|Papers of Edith Anne Stewart ...}}

Her poem The Scots Tongue (1955) gives her thoughts on the language that she loved:{{sfn|McMillan|2010|p=36}}

Gin I'm a livan tongue loe me;

Saebins we'll hae mair bairns;

Gin I'm a deid tongue nae call for keenin,

Ye'll find me wi the gods

Ayont the Reaveries o Time:

Yon are the gowden tongues!

In 1953 Douglas Young wrote to Edith Anne Robertson of her Voices that it was "a truly astonishing challenge to those who think the Lallans incapable of conveying thought (as E. Muir incautiously maintained in 'Scott and Scotland') and incapable of expressing subtleties of feeling (as MacCraig too often assents). Moreover it does fill the gap I emphasised (in my Nelson anthology), when I remarked on the comparative lack of mystical verse in Scots."{{sfn|McMillan|2010|p=xxxix}}

A critic wrote in the Scottish international Review that "in verse, Edith Anne Robertson used a supple and graceful Scots, carrying a large vocabulary with apparent ease in well-varied metres."{{sfn|Scottish international Review|1973|p=5}}

Bibliography

  • {{cite book|last=Stewart|first=Edith Anne|title=The Life of St. Francis Xavier: Evangelist, Explorer, Mystic

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1mIxQAAACAAJ|accessdate=2012-07-25
|year=1917}}
  • {{cite book|last=Robertson|first=Edith Ann|title=He is Become My Song: Carmen Jesu Nazareni

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Lh0QgAACAAJ|accessdate=2012-07-25 |pages=275 |asin=B002FBEV1Q
|year=1930|publisher=Macmillan}}
  • {{cite book|last=Robertson|first=Edith Ann|title=Francis Xavier,: Knight errant of the cross, 1506–1552

|pages=207 |publisher=Student Christian movement press |year=1930
|asin=B0006ALDBO}}
  • {{cite book|last=Robertson|first=Edith Ann|title=Voices frae the city o trees: and ither voices frae nearbye

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YUVuGQAACAAJ|accessdate=2012-07-25 |asin=B001IQ4P42
|year=1955|publisher=M. MacDonald|pages=63}}
  • {{cite book|last=Robertson|first=Edith Ann|title=Poems Frae the Suddron O Walter De La Mare Made Ower Intil Scots By Edith Anne Robertson with a Foreword By Walter De La Mare

|publisher=M MacDonald |year=1955 |asin=B004XSX5K2}}
  • {{cite book|last=Robertson|first=Edith Ann|title=Collected ballads and poems in the Scots tongue

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vV0vAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=2012-07-25 |pages=68 |ISBN=0900015233
|others=Illustrations by Ailie Matthews
|year=1967|publisher=Aberdeen U.P.}}
  • {{cite book|last=Robertson|first=Edith Ann|title=Translations Into the Scots Tongue of Poems By Gerard Manley Hopkins

|publisher=Aberdeen University Press |year=1968
|asin=B00353XH0E}}
  • {{cite book|last=Robertson|first=Edith Ann|title=Forest voices, and other poems in English

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PIcIAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=2012-07-25 |pages=85 |ISBN=0900015012
|year=1969|publisher=Aberdeen U.P.}}
  • {{cite book|last=Robertson|first=Edith Ann

|title=Mair like a dream, radio script describing life on Aberdeenshire farm, 1860–80
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9EWpYgEACAAJ|accessdate=2012-07-25
|pages=168}}

References

1. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/367680960|title=The biographical dictionary of Scottish women : from the earliest times to 2004|last=|first=|date=2006|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|others=Ewan, Elizabeth., Innes, Sue., Reynolds, Sian.|year=|isbn=0748617132|location=Edinburgh|pages=305|oclc=367680960}}
Sources{{refbegin}}
  • {{cite book |ref=harv

|last=McMillan|first=Dorothy|title=Modern Scottish Women Poets
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HRsCLI2_c8sC&pg=PA36|accessdate=2012-07-25
|date=2010-07-01|publisher=Canongate Books|isbn=978-1-84767-507-1}}
  • {{cite web

|ref = {{harvid|Papers of Edith Anne Stewart ...}}
|url = http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb231ms2794andgb231ms3406
|title = Papers of Edith Anne Stewart Robertson and James Alexander Robertson
|work = Archives Hub
|accessdate = 2012-07-25

}}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

  • {{cite journal |ref=harv

|author=Scottish international Review
|journal=Scottish international Review |title=Edith Anne Robertson
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7QFOAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=2012-07-25|year=1973|publisher=Scottish International Review.}}{{refend}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Robertson, Edith Anne}}

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