Blessed, Beastly Place
Douglas Dunn, 5 March 1981
RLS: A Life Study
by Jenni Calder.
Hamish Hamilton, 362 pp., £9.95, June 1980,0 241 10374 6 Show More
by Jenni Calder.
Hamish Hamilton, 362 pp., £9.95, June 1980,
Scottish Satirical Verse
edited by Edwin Morgan.
Carcanet, 236 pp., £6.95, June 1980,0 85635 183 0 Show More
edited by Edwin Morgan.
Carcanet, 236 pp., £6.95, June 1980,
“... did not edit the Bannatyne Manuscript. It was edited by his colleague in the Court of Session, Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, whose Annals led Sir Walter Scott to laud him as ‘the restorer of Scottish history’. Does it matter that the notorious cry of ‘Whaur’s yer Wullie Shakespeare noo?’ greeted Home’s tragedy in London, not Edinburgh? It ... ”