The final chapter contains an appraisal of criticism of the trilogy. In the second chapter I discuss Sunset Song, and the third and fourth chapters deal with the middle and last books of the trilogy respectively. The first chapter is about his life, his intellectual development and his work apart from the trilogy. In this thesis I concentrate on A Scots Quair and refer to his other work only as a necessary context. Set in Mitchell's native area, North-eastern Scotland, the towns and villages of the Mearns become the focus for the author's analysis of both Scottish problems and the complexities of industrial life in the Depression. Apart from his success in creating a new, sophisticated written Scots, it is superior to his other novels in that the ideas do not dominate the structure. A Scots Quair is undoubtedly his finest achievement. His trilogy and the novels published under his own name all reflect his concern for moral and political issues and his passionate interest in the implications of Diffusionism. Mitchell regarded himself as a communicator rather than an artist. James Leslie Mitchell is better remembered as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, the author of the trilogy A Scots Quair.
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