Hugh MacDiarmid

RP knew T. S. Eliot well enough to enjoy a courtly encounter with him at a bus stop, but she felt his great innovations had not necessarily been a good thing for English poetry, and...

CC 's friends included Scotswomen she grew up with—doctors Maud McVail and Isobel Hutton , sculptor Phyllis Clay , and musician Maggie Mather . Among her literary friends were Vita Sackville-West (whom she stayed with...

Besides a few longer poems in English she worked at wee tight hard lyrics the size of a postage stamp in Scots, which she said her readers would simply have to deal with. This...

Unfavourable reponse began with Dan Davin , Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press , who urged Larkin to reconsider some choices (and did succeed in getting him to admit a few poems by...

In 1886 the Dictionary of National Biography said SBdeserves more recognition than she has yet received.An article in the Journal of the Lakeland Dialect Society in 1947 argued that her best work was...

Opposed as many were to her book, it did bring her new friends, among them the author and statesman John Buchan .Neal Ascherson attributes chiefly to her and to Hugh MacDiarmid

Among CC 's surviving poems is The Mother, written, most unusually for her, in the Scots language. It appeared in print in spring 1931 in a new progressive magazine called Modern Scot (which had...

Some nineteenth-century commentators made high claims for COLN , ranking her close to Burns himself (though Burns scholars have found it hard to forgive her unacted-on intention of producing a bowdlerised edition of Burns). She...

The series, edited by Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Hugh MacDiarmid , appeared in 1935 and 1936. Some reference sources, such as Contemporary Authors, call this work a novel, but it is more like a...