Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. CONTENTS 9
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 11
4. INTRODUCTION 13
5. PART ONE
6. 1 The Politics and Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid (1952) 19
7. 2 A Russo-Scottish Parallelism (1923) 38
8. 3 Art and the Unknown (1926) 44
9. 4 Paul Valéry (1927) 49
10. 5 My Native Place (1931) 53
11. 6 The Caledonian Antisyzygy and the Gaelic Idea (1931-2) 56
12. 7 Charles Doughty and the Need for Heroic Poetry (1936) 75
13. 8 John Singer (1942) 86
14. 9 William Soutar (1944) 92
15. PART TWO
16. 10 The Scottish Renaissance: The Next Step (1950) 105
17. 11 The Quality of Scots Internationalism (1950) 111
18. 12 The Significance of Cunninghame Graham (1952) 121
19. 13 Robert Fergusson: Direct Poetry and the Scottish Genius (1952) 129
20. 14 Economic Independence for the Individual (1952) 150
21. 15 Norman Douglas (1953) 157
22. 16 Encouraging the Creative Arts (1953) 162
23. 17 Towards a Celtic Front (1953) 171
24. 18 Robert Burns: His Influence (1959) 177
25. 19 To a Young Poet (1959) 183
26. 20 Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1960) 188
27. 21 John Davidson: Influences and Influence (1961) 197
28. 22 Contemporary Scottish Literature and the National Question (1965) 205
29. 23 The Scottish Renaissance Movement After Forty Years (1966) 216
30. 24 The Upsurge of Scottish Nationalism (1967) 228
31. 25 Poetry and Science (1967) 233
32. REFERENCE NOTES 249