Culture and leisure in Hugh MacDiarmid's 'On a Raised Beach'

Journal article

In his poem 'On a Raised Beach', Hugh MacDiarmid lifted the phrase 'A culture demands leisure and leisure presupposes | A self-determined rhythm of life' from an essay in The New English Weekly. This essay pursues the implications of the borrowing, contextualizing the poem in relation to contemporary conceptions of leisure and culture, particularly those associated with Social Credit.

Authors: Whitworth, M

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Association for Scottish Literary Studies
• Journal: Scottish Studies Review
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 123-43
• Edition: Publisher's version
• ISSN: 1475 7737
• Language: English
• Keywords: Scottish literature; modernism; leisure; Hugh MacDiarmid; social credit
• Subjects: English and Old English literature; English Language and Literature