Gambit. Edinburgh University Review. Summer 1960. Hugh MacDiarmid/Edwin Muir. Scottish Literary Magazine (Tom Scott Ed.)

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Price: 18.99

Summer 1960 issue of Gambit – Edinburgh University Review, a literary journal produced at the University of Edinburgh during a significant period of post-war Scottish literary revival. FREE UK postage.

The magazine was edited by the poet and publisher Tom Scott, who was closely connected with the Scottish literary renaissance movement.

This issue includes poetry, literary criticism and essays from a number of emerging and established writers.

Notable contents include:

• Hugh MacDiarmid: A Point of View

• Discussion of the poetry of Edwin Muir

• Poetry by Robert Garioch

• Work by Anselm Hollo

The issue also includes commentary on Scottish culture and literature, along with contemporary poetry from contributors associated with the university literary scene.

The rear cover carries a period advertisement for Guinness, typical of the advertising that appeared in British literary journals of the period.

A good example of a mid-twentieth-century Scottish university literary magazine, representing the intellectual and cultural atmosphere surrounding Scottish writing in the 1960s.

Year: 1960

Pages: 40