Word: macdiarmid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry (Macmillan; $2.50), edited by Hugh MacDiarmid, is a definitive collection of Scottish verse (much of it written in the Scots' language); and the editor, in an introductory essay as prickly with his native thought as a Highland moor is with heather, goes a long way towards putting Scottish poetry into its right place in the total perspective of the world's literature. Scottish poetry, Editor MacDiarmid points out, is capable of being both genuinely literary, and popular with the common people-something that English poetry has never succeeded in being. Editor MacDiarmid makes...
Readers of this Golden Treasury will recognize that it is a serious lark, as well as a gay one, that Editor MacDiarmid is speaking...