A Redoubling of Life: Allan Massie and Crisis
‘A Redoubling of Life’: Allan Massie and Crisis
ITexts, violence and the Shirra
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How to fund a museum of literature (dump football)
Paul Henderson Scott’s plea for a Scottish Literary Museum next to the National Library, which ought to be supported, spurred the reflection that the fine rebuild of the National Portrait Gallery still perpetuates one nonsense and commits a new one. The gallery of great Scots round the entry court still has no Scotswoman later than Mary Stewart, and the marble statue of Thomas Carlyle has disappeared. He first suggested such a gallery, and the Edinburgh-Duke Universities’ edition of The Carlyle Letters, his correspondence and that of his brilliant wife Jane Welsh, is now an on-line monument to Victorian literature.
How to pay for Paul Scott’s scheme? Dare I take a suggestion from Hugh MacDiarmid’s ‘Glasgow 1960’?
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