He was accused of plagiarism because he quoted passages of Glyn Jones' prose verbatim in his poem "Perfect."
This poet wrote that when God said "Let there be light," "there was a little," but most of the darkness was not illuminated. He was accused of plagiarism because he quoted passages of Glyn Jones' prose verbatim in his poem "Perfect." His major work quotes Robert Burns in describing a "red, red rose" emerging in a section dealing with the 1926 British general strike.  Much of that magnum opus is addressed to Dostoevsky, and it is filled with images of moonlight on the title plant. That poem compares the church straying from Christ to the modern misunderstanding of Robert Burns, and consists of the rambling, often existential, thoughts of the speaker, who quotes the saying in vino veritas and bemoans the state of modern Scotland, which is represented by the title plant. For 10 points, name this leader of the Scottish Renaissance who wrote A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle.
This poet wrote that when God said "Let there be light," "there was a little," but most of the darkness was not illuminated.
Hugh McDiarmid