Dr Blair, the Leavis of the North
Terence Hawkes: English in Scotland, 18 February 1999
The Scottish Invention of English Literature
edited by Robert Crawford.
Cambridge, 271 pp., £35, July 1998,0 521 59038 8 Show More
edited by Robert Crawford.
Cambridge, 271 pp., £35, July 1998,
“... who, as all O and A-level candidates know, endlessly, remorselessly, ‘develop’? Admittedly, Stephen Potter’s The Muse in Chains had offered to blow the gaff in 1937. But pell-mell postwar expansion, to say nothing of Potter’s decline into a chronicler of comfy national foibles, soon settled its hash. ‘English’ seemed to be just there: as natural ... ”