Scottish eccentrics
MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-19781993
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MacDiarmid's study of individual eccentrics focuses on ten characters from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. It culminates in an epilogue on the "strange procession" of those whose qualities display the unpredictable energies and extremes associated with "The Caladonian Antisyzygy".
Main title:
Scottish eccentrics / Hugh MacDiarmid ; edited by Alan Riach.
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Publisher:
Manchester : Carcanet [in association with] Mid Northumberland Arts Group, 1993.
Collation:
xii, 336 pages ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Originally published : New York : Johnson Reprint Corporation 1972.
Contents:
Lord George GordonSir Thomas Urqhart, the Knight of CromartyThe great McGonagallJames Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd"Christopher North" (Professor John Wilson)The strange case of William BerryThomas Davidson, and the Fellowship of the New LifeElspeth Buchan, friend mother in the LordJames Burnett, Lord Monboddo"Ossian" Macpherson and William LauderEpilogue: the strange processionThe Caledonian antisyzygy
ISBN:
978090479079518575401310904790797 (Mid Northumberland Arts Group)9781857540130
Language:
English
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Index terms:
EccentricsScotlandLord George GordonThomas DavidsonElspeth BuchanJames BurnettLord MonboddoGORDON, GeorgeURQUHART, ThomasMCGONAGALL, WilliamHOGG, JamesWILSON, JohnBERRY, WilliamDAVIDSON, ThomasBUCHAN, ElspethBURNETT, JamesMACPHERSON, OssianLAUDER, William
BRN:
466980
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