A sober look at the thistle

Scotland on Sunday | December 17, 2006| | Copyright

The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature Ian Brown (general editor) with Thomas Owen Clancy, Susan Manning and Murray Pittock (co- editors) Edinburgh University Press, 3 volumes, GBP 195

WHATEVER qualifications and caveats follow, I should make clear at the outset that The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature is an extremely important and substantial work. Comprising 104 essays by leading specialists, it reflects an unprecedented level of cultural confidence. It is hard to credit that less than a century ago, TS Eliot could not only provocatively entitle an essay "Was there a ...

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