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“... frost subdu’d, / Gradual, resolves into a weeping thaw’, though Johnson’s admired James Thomson, author of these lines, came close to being Fergusson’s contemporary. That sense of linguistic jolting and, not infrequently, of cross-linguistic connections lends Watson’s anthology its revelatory potential. Ossianic translatorese, the Burns who ...”

“... on the Scots, towards whom we sense that their book has, if not a bias, certainly a leaning. Derick Thomson, Iain Crichton Smith and Sorley MacLean in Scottish Gaelic and Bobi Jones in Welsh are comfortably and necessarily in, but contemporary poets do not get the same pluralist chance as their Scots and English-language siblings. Menna Elfyn and ...”

“... sets of belief contribute directly or by opposition to the subject-matter of most of these books. Derick Thomson’s Companion is a response to intensifying interest in Highland culture. It is handsomely illustrated on a wide range of themes, but there is a thoroughness in its approach which makes it more than a tourist souvenir. There are two pages, for ...”