a torrent of books on Scottish literature and rural Scotland, as well as a much-revised Burns encyclopedia, anthologies of foreign travellers and neglected poets, memoirs of old friends, and company histories. This did not mean he gave up poetry. He wrote lyrics for the composer Thea Musgrave, earning praise for his lines in her Abbot of Drymock. and continued to produce regular volumes of crisp, clear verse inspired by personal experience, such as the Orange march he saw while taking his daughter to her wedding: "Spread women, ugly men and little children/dressed in their Sunday best of bigotry,/suffered to come unto intolerance/down orange miles of bannered frippery."
from Telegraph: Maurice Lindsay
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