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A revelatory history of Scottish verse, from Columba to Carol Ann Duffy

Summary by TheTLS
Among the atheist Hugh MacDiarmid’s many contradictions was an ability to combine doctrinaire Marxism-Leninism with a vein of Christian mysticism. In his early lyric “The Innumerable Christ”, he echoes Virgil of Salzburg’s heretical theories of far-off planets, each with its own Calvary, where “the heids / O’ endless Christs roll doon”. The dramatic language in which MacDiarmid cloaks his supernatural theme (“I’ mony an unco warl’ the nicht”) be…
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TheTLS broke the news in on Wednesday, June 11, 2025.
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