Search Results

“... ascribe it to a time too when the Highlanders knew nothing of books, and nothing of six ...’ In Fiona Stafford’s The Sublime Savage, which takes its title from Boswell’s nickname for Macpherson, it is again a question of invention and discovery – of the bygone Highlands as a ‘Golden Age’ or ‘Scottish Paradise’ and also, of course, of The ...”

“... elaborations. Recent Macpherson scholars operating largely outside the Gaelic world, and headed by Fiona Stafford, point out that it was customary for 18th-century translators and literary collectors to add to and embellish their source material. Sadly, though, the best known modern voice in this controversy has been that of Lord Dacre, who has argued ...”

“... him as the spearhead of a crude Scottish ‘cultural imperialism’. But the claim made here by Fiona Stafford that Blair addresses the central questions later put by I.A. Richards in Principles of Literary Criticism with the ‘zealous optimism of a pioneer’ is certainly plausible, and his sense of criticism as an active dialogic process in which ...”

“... when she became an MP at the 1997 election. At the same time Cameron fought, and lost, the seat of Stafford, which the Tories had been hoping to hold before Blair blew all such hopes away. By that point May had been married to Philip for close on twenty years. They had no children, something she has since revealed was not a matter of choice. Both her parents ...”