Tuesday, August 22, 2006

News at Eleven: That Scotland now has the cultural

confidence to teach its own literature in schools and universities is some acknowledgement of [Hugh] MacDiarmid's desire for full Scottish self-expression and, however much he may have despaired of the current devolved Parliament with its limited powers, his has been the loudest voice for Scottish self-determination in the modern era.

from The Scotsman: Of poetry and politics: MacDiarmid's vision of Scotland

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