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Self and Otherness in Norman MacCaig’s Poetry

Author(s) -

Dominique Delmaire

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

e-rea

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1638-1718

DOI - 10.4000/erea.446

Subject(s) - poetry , id, ego and super ego , subject (documents) , reflexive pronoun , self , literature , art , philosophy , art history , psychoanalysis , psychology , epistemology , computer science , library science

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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