Knowing more
Rosalind Mitchison, 14 September 1989
Poets, Polities and the People
by V.G. Kiernan, edited by Harvey Kaye.
Verso, 239 pp., £29.95, June 1989,0 86091 245 0 Show More
by V.G. Kiernan, edited by Harvey Kaye.
Verso, 239 pp., £29.95, June 1989,
For King and Conscience: John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee
by Magnus Linklater and Christian Hesketh.
Weidenfeld, 244 pp., £16.95, June 1989,0 297 79540 6 Show More
by Magnus Linklater and Christian Hesketh.
Weidenfeld, 244 pp., £16.95, June 1989,
“... alternative bog of Highland myth. At least Kiernan does better on the Covenanters than his editor, Harvey Kaye, who thinks that what they were fighting for was the National Covenant of 1638 instead of the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643. I would not like to be dogmatic and state that confusing these two very different assertions is the biggest howler ... ”