Scottish Art and Letters: A Quarterly Review of Literature and the Liberal Arts. Number 1. 1944. R Crombie Saunders (Ed.)

First issue of this scarce Scottish Renaissance literary and arts review, published in wartime Glasgow and intended as a forum uniting modern Scottish literature, criticism, theatre, and visual art. The journal forms part of the important tradition of twentieth-century Scottish “little magazines”, which played a major role in sustaining the cultural ambitions of the Scottish Renaissance movement. Contributors include several significant figures of twentieth-century Scottish poetry:

• Maurice Lindsay

• Norman MacCaig

• Robert Garioch

• Sydney Goodsir Smith

• William Soutar

• G. S. Fraser

The publication was issued in large-format pictorial wrappers with a striking geometric design reflecting the modernist artistic direction of Fergusson, one of the Scottish Colourists and a key figure linking Scottish and European modernist art.

This inaugural issue runs to 52 pages with six plates (including one colour plate) and presents an unusually strong group of contributors drawn from leading Scottish literary circles of the period.

Year: 1944

Pages: 52

Condition: Very Good

Notes: Near Fine, clean copy. FREE UK postage.