The twentieth-century Scottish Renaissance saw a sudden and
dramatic change in Scotland's literary landscape. Beginning in the
1920s, Scottish writers increasingly engaged with contemporary
social and political issues, and with questions of national
identity. An integral part of this development was the radically
new literary status accorded to the Scots language. MacDiarmid's
immediate predecessors had introduced modern themes and linguistic
experimentation to Scots poetry; and though MacDiarmid is the
unquestioned central figure in the great poetic revival, he rode a
rising tide. He and the poets who paved the way for him represent
the first wave of the Scottish Renaissance. The second wave
contains the extraordinary company of poets who wrote under his
direct inspiration. On any showing, the scale and quality of this
movement is a phenomenon rarely paralleled in literary history. A
Kist o Skinklan Things contains a selection of the best work from
this great period.
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