Blessed, Beastly Place
Douglas Dunn, 5 March 1981
RLS: A Life Study
by Jenni Calder.
Hamish Hamilton, 362 pp., £9.95, June 1980,0 241 10374 6 Show More
by Jenni Calder.
Hamish Hamilton, 362 pp., £9.95, June 1980,
Scottish Satirical Verse
edited by Edwin Morgan.
Carcanet, 236 pp., £6.95, June 1980,0 85635 183 0 Show More
edited by Edwin Morgan.
Carcanet, 236 pp., £6.95, June 1980,
“... head filled with the blessed, beastly place all the time!’ A few months later, he was writing to J.M. Barrie, mocking those who had traced his style to ‘all sorts of people, including Addison, of whom I never read a word.’ ‘Well, laigh i’ your lug, sir – the clue was found,’ he went on. ‘My style is from the Covenanting writers.’ He meant ... ”
