ABSTRACT
In the February 1923 issue of his journal, Scottish Chapbook, Hugh MacDiarmid declares his faith in the possibility of 'a great Scottish Literary Renaissance, deriving its strength from the resources that lie latent and almost unsuspected in the Vernacular'. In Sonnets from Scotland science fiction's malleabilities of time and space are used to give surprising perspectives of Scotland and the planet Earth. MacDiarmid resuscitated Scots and Sorley MacLean rejuvenated literary Gaelic. An honnete homme involved with books and humankind, Edwin Morgan is Scotland's most distinguished person of letters after MacDiarmid. In 1990 he chose the occasion of his seventieth birthday to confirm his position as a homosexual writer. In the collection called Instamatic Poems Morgan shows his responsiveness to fact, the cool hand of the poet interfering with the material of news clippings only to adjust them into the surprises generated by their arrangement as verse.
