ABSTRACT
D. Daiches (ed.), A Companion to Scottish Culture (London 1981), R Watson, The Literature of Scotland (London 1984) and M. Lindsay, History of Scottish Literature (London 1977) provide a general introduction. H.M. Shire, Song, Dance and Poetry at the Court of Scotland Under King james VI (Cambridge 1969) covers the Castalians in detail. For seventeenth-century cultural developments see G. Donaldson, Stair's Scodand; the intellectual inheritance, juridical Review, 1981, 128-45. For Gaelic culture see D. Thomson, An Introduction to Gaelic Poetry (London 1974) and D. Thomson (ed.), The Companion to Gaelic Scotland (London 1983). T. Crawford, Society and the Lyric: A Study of the Song Culture of Eighteenth-Century Scodand (London 1979) and W. Donaldson, The jacobite Song (Aberdeen 1988) look at popular song. Some aspects of popular culture have been considered in EJ. Cowan (ed.), The Peoples' Past (Edinburgh 1980). The development of Scottish education is considered by ]. Scotland, The History of Scottish Education, Vol. I (London 1969). RA. Houston, Scottish Literacy and the Scottish Identity (Cambridge 1985) provides challenging new interpretations. Book ownership in the Northern and Western Isles is considered in F.]. Shaw, The Northern and Western Islands of Scotland in the Seventeenth Century (Edinburgh 1979).
