Abstract
Surveys the war poetry of the Scottish poet, folklorist, and folk-singer Hamish Henderson (1919-2002), including his service with the 51st Highland Division in the Western Desert and Sicily, drawing a contrast between his long modernist poem Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica (1948) and the songs in his collection Ballads of World War II (Glasgow: Lili Marleen Club, 1947), in light of Henderson's developing political ideas and engagement with the Italian cultural theorist Antonio Gramsci.
Recommended Citation
Gibson, Corey
(2014)
"In the Midst of Our Human Civil War: Hamish Henderson’s War Poetry and Soldier’s Songs,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 40:
Iss.
1, 146–166.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol40/iss1/14