Scottish renaissance
Scottish literary movement
Also known as: Lallans revival, Synthetic Scots
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establishment by MacDiarmid
- In Hugh MacDiarmid
…1978, Edinburgh) was the preeminent Scottish poet of the first half of the 20th century and leader of the Scottish literary renaissance.
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place in Scottish literature
- In Scottish literature
…I there occurred a “renaissance” in literature (particularly poetry) in Scots that sought to restore the language’s prestige and to modernize it. The Scottish renaissance was also called the Lallans revival—the term Lallans (Lowlands) having been used by Burns to refer to the language—and it centred on Hugh MacDiarmid…
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