Unaccountables
Donald Davie, 7 March 1985
The Letters of Hugh MacDiarmid
edited by Alan Bold.
Hamish Hamilton, 910 pp., £20, August 1984,0 241 11220 6 Show More
edited by Alan Bold.
Hamish Hamilton, 910 pp., £20, August 1984,
Between Moon and Moon: Selected Letters of Robert Graves 1946-1972
edited by Paul O’Prey.
Hutchinson, 323 pp., £14.95, November 1984,9780091557508 Show More
edited by Paul O’Prey.
Hutchinson, 323 pp., £14.95, November 1984,
“... brought up to show that the modernist impetus survived in the generation after Pound: David Jones, Anglo-Welshman; Basil Bunting, Northumbrian Englishman; and Hugh MacDiarmid, Lowland Scot. The claim for Jones seems the weakest: it is advanced by Jones’s admirers, not by the poet ... ”