marked a late return (here in his eighty-fifth year), after long experimentation with poems in standard English, to the lyrics in a composite Scots or "Lallans" with which MacDiarmid had made his name in the 1920s and early 30s.The poems were accompanied at the time with the following glossary:
kittled, tickled; lift, sky; lourd, heavy; marrow, equal; clarsach, harp; lichtnin', lightning
Ulysses' Bow
from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: Ulysses' Bow and The Black Rainbow Over the Minch, by Hugh MacDiarmid
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