'This intellectually rigorous and stimulating book is unique, important, and ground breaking.' - Frank Bechhofer, Scottish Affairs 'In this acute, sympathetic, trenchant book, Henderson emerges as both a crucial figure in Scottish cultural politics and an internationally resonant intellectual. Modernist poet, folk revivalist, cultural collector, polemicist, impresario, thinker, comrade: Henderson contained multitudes. Gibson brilliantly tracks his multiple commitments and makes a strong case for him as a theorist and not only a collector of 'culture'. Henderson and his work have long been due a rich and full appraisal: here it is.' Maureen N. McLane, New York University Hamish Henderson and the search for the radical voice of the people in modern Scotland How might the alienation of the artist in modern Scotland be overcome? How do you incite a popular folk revival? Can a poet truly speak with the 'voice of the people'? And what happens to the writer who rejects print culture in favour of becoming Anon.? The life and times of Hamish Henderson (1919-2002) - polymath, scholar, author and folk-hero - poses, and helps us to answer, these questions. This book examines his life-long commitment to finding a form of artistic expression suitable for post-war Europe. Though Henderson is a major figure in Scottish cultural history, his reputation is largely maintained in anecdote and song. This study explores his ideas in their intellectual, cultural and political contexts. Henderson envisaged the role of the artist as one caught between an absolute submission to the collective tide of human experience and the need to absorb and recreate this collective force according to an individual or personal credo. All of his works - in war poetry, song collection, folklore scholarship, folksong revivalism, literary translation and some vicious public debates - are underpinned by an ambitious moral-intellectual programme: to reintegrate the artist in society. Corey Gibson is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. His work on Hamish Henderson earned him the Ross Roy Medal for excellence in Scottish Literary Research. In 2013 he was the US-UK Fulbright Commission Scottish Studies Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Shortlisted for the 2015 Saltire Research Book of the Year