Volume 17, Number 9 · December 2, 1971
Scotch on the Rocks
By Karl Miller
Selected Essays of Hugh MacDiarmid
edited with an Introduction by Duncan Glen
University of California Press, 252 pp., $6.00
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
by Hugh MacDiarmid, edited by John C. Weston
University of Massachusetts Press, 136 pp., $2.95 (paper)
Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poems
edited with an Introduction by David Craig, by John Manson
Penguin Books, 126 pp., $1.25 (paper)
More Collected Poems
by Hugh MacDiarmid
Swallow, 108 pp., $6.00
Scots, or Scotch, the speech of Scotland's country people and proletariat, has often been declared dying, but is still alive. I spoke it when I was a boy in the Forties, believing it would soon be gone. Writing in his Journal a hundred years earlier, in 1844, Lord Cockburn thought the same thing:
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