Old Norse Influence in the Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid and George Mackay Brown | ||
| مجلة بحوث کلية الآداب . جامعة المنوفية | ||
| Article 7, Volume 13, Issue 49, April 2002, Pages 27-67 PDF (6.18 M) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/sjam.2002.140602 | ||
| Authors | ||
| علاء سيد محمود عبدالله* 1; Osama Abd EI-Fattah Madany* 2 | ||
| 1لا يوجد | ||
| 2faculty of arts - minoufiya university | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The traditional debate in Scotland over issues of language and cultural identity has centred largely around one basic question: Is Scotland a cultural domain of Gaelic, Scots or English? There are varying, often conflicting opinions when it comes to such a heated polemic. The linguistic characteristics and literary achievements of each of these cultural categories has been championed by several distinguished Scottish writers. Each viewpoint speaks in favour of one category but often at the expense of the other two. Douglas Young, for example, in response to the derogatory notion that Gaelic poets ”were mainly preoccupied with twilight and moonshine, decay and death” 1 replies in defiance that Gaelic literature is ”as vivid and realist and varied a body of literature as has been produced by any of the great languages and language .•groups at comparable stages of social development.?”. Hugh MacDiarmid, the initiator of what came to be known as the Scottish Renaissance, battled against many odds in defense of his native, vulnerable Scots against the predominant English language; a language he looked upon as imperfect in essence: I wanted to re-establish it [Scots] as a language and work back to a complete canon of the language . English was in a worse position than Scots. There are more dialect differences in England than ever were in Scotland .... They treat their dialects shamefully, the English. 3 This sense of belonging towards one language over the other was inculcated in MacDiarmid’s childhood school memories as he experienced the cleavage between his native Scots and English | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Scottish poetry; English poetry; The traditional debate | ||
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