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,
“... language and their manners on other English-speaking nations (Australian, Canadian, Scottish and Welsh and Irish, others), what is striking is how that Anglocentrism, allegedly located in London and Oxbridge mostly, is supposed to be deeply satisfying to the English themselves. Robert Crawford, who pursues the argument on behalf of the Scots, avoids this ... ”