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 roderick watson features so largely among the poets in this essay, Henderson’s thoughts are worth quotingat length: It was t ...

‘death’s proletariat’  metaphysical and the material come together, in the shade of Pharaohs, Greeks, andRomans, in a war of ...

 roderick watson of dye with which a scientist colours a piece of matter before looking at it under a microscope.It allowed d ...

‘death’s proletariat’  wife as the symbolic beloved in a series of intensely painful and passionately conscience-strickenmedi ...

 roderick watson of [his] preoccupation with [his] own private troubles’.^43 Nevertheless,MacLean continued to work on the co ...

‘death’s proletariat’  time he got.’ The poem’s conclusion establishes a kinship in grief for this ‘poor manikin’by echoing t ...

 roderick watson without asking us whichwas better or worse.^47 MacLean’s ironic reference to ‘Election’ takes the poet back ...

‘death’s proletariat’  Maclean and the ‘Red Clydeside’ of the 1920s, such conditions produced rising Scottishsupport for the ...

 roderick watson the War he sought a better use for his gifts by asking for a transfer to the Intelligence Service,but his ea ...

‘death’s proletariat’  own love for the fishing communities of Loch Fyne. But the Scottish section stalled afterbarely 200 li ...

 roderick watson its flame and smoke, itssparks and the screaming of its inmates, while house upon house is rent and collapse ...

‘death’s proletariat’  when theFransˆawiwillbe swept away.’ Jabbing the earth he twisted his cleaver round— ‘Just as I grind ...

 roderick watson he was teaching English. If Smith’s Scots diction seems overly strained in this early poem,his later lyrics ...

‘death’s proletariat’  ... Itwas the Germans—you’d hardly call them Nazi— Polite and battle-hungry happy men —O I would like ...

 roderick watson only to be assailed there, in his familiar home surroundings, with an overwhelming senseof choking guilt and ...

‘death’s proletariat’  ‘The Wire’ draws more directly on Garioch’swartimecaptivity, with an allegorical vision of the world a ...

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occupying new territory  (1913–88) summed up Welsh-language poets’ reaction to the Second World War.^2 Amongthose who did res ...

 gerwyn wiliams awaits us in Wales, to be discovered and cultivated and claimed, so as to extend theboundaries of Welsh cultu ...

occupying new territory  team of the recently established Welsh Region. In September 1939 he was relocated toLondon as part o ...