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Assoc for Scottish Literature
@scotlit@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

I outstrip the moon in brightness,
I outrun midsummer suns…

Edwin Morgan died #OTD, 19 August, 2010. “Riddle”, the final poem of Morgan’s final collection, Dreams and Other Nightmares (Mariscat, 2010), is a translation of one of the 10th-century Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book riddles, itself a translation of a Latin original by the poet Aldhelm (c.639–709 CE).

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Riddle by Edwin Morgan Up beyond the universe and back Down to the tiniest chigger in the finger – I outstrip the moon in brightness, I outrun midsummer suns. I embrace the seas and other waters, I am fresh and green as the fields I form. I walk under hell, I flow over the heavens. I am the land, I am the ocean. I claim this honour, I claim its worth. I am what I claim. What is my name?
Riddle by Edwin Morgan Up beyond the universe and back Down to the tiniest chigger in the finger – I outstrip the moon in brightness, I outrun midsummer suns. I embrace the seas and other waters, I am fresh and green as the fields I form. I walk under hell, I flow over the heavens. I am the land, I am the ocean. I claim this honour, I claim its worth. I am what I claim. What is my name?
Riddle by Edwin Morgan Up beyond the universe and back Down to the tiniest chigger in the finger – I outstrip the moon in brightness, I outrun midsummer suns. I embrace the seas and other waters, I am fresh and green as the fields I form. I walk under hell, I flow over the heavens. I am the land, I am the ocean. I claim this honour, I claim its worth. I am what I claim. What is my name?
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

“A poet of this parish who was universal in his outreach… A great humanist Scot who, despite all the pyrotechnics of his poetry, always wanted to explore existence & what it means to be alive.”

—from George Reid’s eulogy for Edwin Morgan

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https://asls.org.uk/edwin-morgan-a-eulogy/

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Edwin Morgan, aged 89. Photo by Alex Boyd. Edwin Morgan’s head in profile, looking to the left. Morgan is smiling, alert, with short white hair and beard. He's wearing a checked shirt under a black cardigan which disappears into the black background of the photograph. Alex Boyd's initials – a tall capita A containing a smaller capital B between its legs – are printed in the lower right-hand corner.
Edwin Morgan, aged 89. Photo by Alex Boyd. Edwin Morgan’s head in profile, looking to the left. Morgan is smiling, alert, with short white hair and beard. He's wearing a checked shirt under a black cardigan which disappears into the black background of the photograph. Alex Boyd's initials – a tall capita A containing a smaller capital B between its legs – are printed in the lower right-hand corner.
Edwin Morgan, aged 89. Photo by Alex Boyd. Edwin Morgan’s head in profile, looking to the left. Morgan is smiling, alert, with short white hair and beard. He's wearing a checked shirt under a black cardigan which disappears into the black background of the photograph. Alex Boyd's initials – a tall capita A containing a smaller capital B between its legs – are printed in the lower right-hand corner.
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