finally for what is 'encyclopedically relevant' have a look at something actually good like edward morgan's article on scottish literature in mid th century britannicas for example what would you do with this conclusion to a superb essay which is on an intellectual level very seldom scaled by wikipedia presumably for lack of aspiration rather than competence the problem of english or scots is one that has still to be worked out and its difficulties are a part of the whole cultural situation the scottish sense of separateness is too real to be swamped but english is dominant in prose writing and in educated speech and the scottish poet of the th century has been therefore like a shaman who must try out many disguises until he finds the one in which he can best prophesy and persuade