The Correspondence Between Hugh MacDiarmid and Sorley MacLean by Susan R. Wilson
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Overview: The Correspondence Between Hugh MacDiarmid and Sorley MacLean, edited by Susan Wilson, offers a wealth of illuminating insights into these towering literary figures of the mid-twentieth century … The letters are alive with the energy and intimacy of the Scottish Renaissance. Dr Wilson’s introductory essay gives a full and accessible resume of the relevant political and literary background to the period, and there are helpful notes identifying the characters and events we meet within this precious body of letters. — William Gillies, Professor of Celtic, University of Edinburgh (1979-2009) ‘Wilson’s editorial work is admirably comprehensive with an informative introduction and detailed notes on the letters. She also includes at the end of the book the text of an interview which MacLean gave to an Irish journalist in 1986. In it he is unusually frank about incidents in his private life about which he was usually very reticent.’ — Paul Henderson Scott The Sunday Herald ‘The Correspondence Between Hugh MacDiarmid and Sorley MacLean is an important publication, both in itself and for the ideas it provokes … Wilson’s edition will fascinate anyone interested in literary translation. A missing piece from the 10,000-piece jigsaw of modernism, it provokes, too, reflections on the relationship between modernism and Anglophobia.
Genre: Records and correspondence > Memoirs
In her extended and thoughtful introduction, [Wilson] reproaches some recent Scottish academics for "ignoring the fact that in certain circumstances, nationalism may, in fact, result in positive outcomes which are creative and regenerative".’ — Robert Crawford Times Literary Supplement The Correspondence Between Hugh MacDiarmid and Sorley MacLean, edited by Susan Wilson, offers a wealth of illuminating insights into these towering literary figures of the mid-twentieth century … The letters are alive with the energy and intimacy of the Scottish Renaissance. Dr Wilson’s introductory essay gives a full and accessible resume of the relevant political and literary background to the period, and there are helpful notes identifying the characters and events we meet within this precious body of letters. ‘Wilson’s editorial work is admirably comprehensive with an informative introduction and detailed notes on the letters. She also includes at the end of the book the text of an interview which MacLean gave to an Irish journalist in 1986. In it he is unusually frank about incidents in his private life about which he was usually very reticent.’ ‘The Correspondence Between Hugh MacDiarmid and Sorley MacLean is an important publication, both in itself and for the ideas it provokes … Wilson’s edition will fascinate anyone interested in literary translation. A missing piece from the 10,000-piece jigsaw of modernism, it provokes, too, reflections on the relationship between modernism and Anglophobia … In her extended and thoughtful introduction, [Wilson] reproaches some recent Scottish academics for "ignoring the fact that in certain circumstances, nationalism may, in fact, result in positive outcomes which are creative and regenerative".
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