Abstract
Neil McLennan looks at the poetry of Ewart Alan Mackintosh – a second lieutenant who won the Military Cross for valorous conduct at Arras and who was later killed at Cambrai in November 1917. Mackintosh, McLennan argues, was a devoted and conscientious leader of men, motivated more by an attachment to Scottish landscape, tradition, and loyalty to his comrades than by a hatred of the enemy. McLennan charts the course of Mackintosh’s post-war legacy, moving from near complete obscurity – through a 2004 biography, a monument at the Saint Hubert Chapel in France, anthologisation, and involvement in national centenary commemorations – towards an increasingly central role in the British Great War literary canon.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Scottish Literature and World War I |
Editors | David Rennie |
Place of Publication | Edinburgh |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Chapter | 14 |
Pages | 268-285 |
Number of pages | 18 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-4744-9594-3 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4744-5459-9, 978-1-4744-5460-5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 2020 |
Keywords
- A Highland Regiment
- Ewart Alan Mackintosh
- War
- The Liberator
- and Other Pieces
- commemoration