Scots wha hae gone to England
Donald Davie, 9 July 1992
Devolving English Literature
by Robert Crawford.
Oxford, 320 pp., £35, June 1992,9780198112983 Show More
by Robert Crawford.
Oxford, 320 pp., £35, June 1992,
The Faber Book of 20th-Century Scottish Poetry
edited by Douglas Dunn.
Faber, 424 pp., £17.50, July 1992,9780571154319 Show More
edited by Douglas Dunn.
Faber, 424 pp., £17.50, July 1992,
“... then who is left to man the supposedly overbearing metropolis, unless it is Kingsley Amis and John Betjeman? The ramparts so frailly manned should have given way long ago to the armies massed against them. What Crawford doesn’t realise is that this indeed has happened; he is sounding the bugle for an assault on a fortress that surrendered years ago. The ... ”