HD's war "Trilogy" ranks with Eliot's "Four Quartets", Pound's "Pisan Cantos" and poems like Edith Sitwell's "Still Falls the Rain" as civilian war poetry in a war which tore apart so many of the cities of Europe. The outer violence of the scene touc...

"The Observer" described Anne Ridler as "one of the best poets of her generation". Anne Ridler's first book, "Poems", was published in 1939. She worked on the Faber editorial staff (1935-1940), for a time as assistant to T. S. Eliot. Her poetry devel...

The concept of mastery straddles a largely unexamined seam in contemporary thought dividing admirable self-control from a reprehensible will to power. Although Joseph Conrad has traditionally been viewed as an admirable master – master mariner, story...

These volumes contain the previously uncollected essays, journalism and interviews of Hugh MacDiarmid, as part of Carcanet's "MacDiarmid 2000" programme. Other titles in the series include "Complete Poems", "Lucky Poet", "Contemporary Scottish Studie...

Substantial pieces on Scottish themes are assembled in this volume, from "Albyn" (1927) to "A Political Speech" delivered at Glasgow University in 1972. The editor has focused on MacDiarmid's view of powerful figures in Scottish culture, notably Davi...