Thanks to cris, and to Tony for eloquent enthuses about Tom Leonard`s
work.
Tony wrote:
> He took that Scottish
> language problem (which was previously so obsessively puritanical)
> and pushed it much further by using his own version of Glasgow speech.
Tom Leonard showed that the "Scottish language problem" was, at
bottom, a class problem. [Robert Crawford`s book, Identifying Poets,
tries to assimilate Leonard (and fails) while trying to forget what
Leonard did.] Insistence on this insight, valuable as it is, is right
up Calvinism`s street: Scottish Calvinists are"obsessively
puritanical" whether they are right or not, as witness the interview
with James Kelman in Saturday`s Guardian magazine.
robin
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