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Bold, Alan Norman, 1943-1998 (poet, journalist, biographer)

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  • Existence: 1943 - 1998

Biography

Alan Norman Bold was born in Edinburgh in 1943. He was the editor of Hugh MacDiarmid's Letters and wrote the influential biography MacDiarmid. His own debut work, Society Inebrious was published in 1965. This early publication started a prolific poetic career. In 1970, he published the book-length work The State of the Nation, and also edited The Penguin Book of Socialist Verse (1970), and in 1973 a biography of Robert Burns. He suffered a heart attack in early 1998 and died in a hospital in Kirkcaldy at the age of 54.

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Typescript of a lecture given by Alan Bold entitled "Art and Action" , March 1965

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Identifier: Coll-1848/24-0029
Scope and Contents Typescript containing the full text of a lecture entitled "Art and Action" given by Alan Bold to the Edinburgh Branch of the Young Communist League in March 1965. It starts as follows: "The function of art is the extension of human consciousness. That statement should satisfy anyone as to why he or she should bother themselves with art. But it won't, and that is why I am here tonight. I want to show you that art is as important in the struggle for communism as politics is, and that serious...
Dates: March 1965
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

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