{"id":114,"date":"2026-05-29T05:38:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2026-05-29T05:38:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:38:04","slug":"looking-backward-james-campbell-reviews-his-own-1982-nation-essay-on-leaving-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Looking Backward: James Campbell Reviews His Own 1982 \u2018Nation\u2019 Essay on Leaving Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<div>\n<article>\n<header>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>World<\/li>\n<li>Books &amp; the Arts<\/li>\n<li>September 24, 2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Looking Backward: James Campbell Reviews His Own 1982 \u2018Nation\u2019 Essay on Leaving Scotland<\/h1>\n<h1>Looking Backward: James Campbell Reviews His Own 1982 \u2018Nation\u2019 Essay on Leaving Scotland<\/h1>\n<h2>\n<p>\u201cHow can I have seemed so settled in my opinions? So smug in my attitudes?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<time>September 24, 2014<\/time><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>In 1982, the Scottish writer James Campbell penned an essay in our pages describing his decision to leave his native land. \u201cWhatever pride I felt in being a Scot was a mere reflex of having been born here, and not something I could possibly have earned,\u201d wrote Campbell, a former editor of the <\/em>New Edinburgh Review, <em>who announced he was moving to London. \u201cSometimes it seems to me that since 1707, Scotland has been marking time around the place where its Parliament used to be, and that to lead a life in this country\u2014particularly the life of \u2018a man who is fond of letters\u2019\u2014is to circle endlessly around that empty site.\u201d Near the end of the essay\u2014\u2014Campbell took aim at \u201cthe contradictions, and the desperation, besetting the mind that immerses itself in the dream of an independent Scotland.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Scottish Parliament, as even many Americans now know, was reconstituted in 1999, to satisfy the burgeoning Scottish independence movement. That failing to sate Alex Salmond and his cohort, the United Kingdom permitted Scotland to hold a referendum last week, which the independence campaign lost. (One cannot quite say the unity campaign won.) In the wake of the heated campaign, we asked Campbell\u2014still a resident of London, he is now a columnist at the <\/em>Times Literary Supplement<em> and the author of<\/em> Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin (1991)<em>, among other works\u2014to reflect on  and on how his concerns of more than thirty years ago remain operative or otherwise in the great debate that culminated, but did not end, last week.\u2014Richard Kreitner<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Scotland is one of the oldest nations in Europe, but in the thirty or so years since I wrote this essay for <em>The Nation<\/em>, it has become younger. The Scottish National Party, which I treated as a joke in the early 1980s, has transformed itself into the leading political force in the country. There has been a renaissance in literature and the arts generally, propelled by the singular force of Alasdair Gray (mentioned in my piece), author of the fictional masterpiece <em>Lanark<\/em>, as well as a distinctive painter of portraits and church murals. When I studied at Edinburgh University, Scottish literature was the least popular\u2014least cool\u2014option, which is certainly not true today. Specialists in the subject were regarded as eccentric, as were some of the then-current poets. If a young Scot like me happened to be immersed in poetry, it was Robert Lowell whose new book he awaited with eagerness, not Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan or Iain Crichton Smith\u2014Scottish poets I now hold in the highest esteem. Sport in general, and soccer in particular, which provided the public events round which the Scottish public rallied, has correspondingly gone into decline. In short, the country these days is full of intellectual reach and artistic ambition. To be a Scot was always to be proud of one\u2019s nationality. \u201cIt\u2019s better to be Scottish,\u201d quipped Muriel Spark, our greatest twentieth-century novelist; \u201cmorally better somehow.\u201d It is a witty statement that no English person would dare to venture. It is part of the Scottish mentality and the Scottish identity that every Scot knows just what she means.<\/p>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<p><span><span>&#8220;swipe left below to view more authors&#8221;<\/span>Swipe \u2192<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>Nurses Are the Backbone of  US Healthcare\u2014and They\u2019re Getting Screwed<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                Nurses Are the Backbone of  US Healthcare\u2014and They\u2019re Getting Screwed<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p>\nGregg Gonsalves <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>Why the Brooklyn Courtroom Birth Was the Last Straw for Public Defenders<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                Why the Brooklyn Courtroom Birth Was the Last Straw for Public Defenders<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p>\nSophie Mann-Shafir <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>Trump\u2019s Texas Senate Primary Win Is Going to Backfire Spectacularly <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                Trump\u2019s Texas Senate Primary Win Is Going to Backfire Spectacularly <\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p>\nAna Marie Cox <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>GLP-1s and the Limits of Knowing Better<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                GLP-1s and the Limits of Knowing Better<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p>\nGrace Ginsburg <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>And yet all through the campaign leading up to last week\u2019s referendum on independence, I hoped Scotland would remain part of the United Kingdom. \u201cIt\u2019s too small,\u201d said my French hostess during the recent summer holiday in Normandy\u2014the population of the country is around 5 million\u2014a feeling not all Scots would admit to, though many might harbor it furtively.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the brash fellow who wrote that piece for <em>The Nation<\/em> is younger, too, today. How can I have seemed so settled in my opinions? So smug in my attitudes? I was writing out of the weight of a certain predicament\u2014the magazine editor\u2019s problem of teasing good political copy out of writers in a political stasis, as well as the impossibility of making a living as a writer in Scotland\u2014and I ought to trust to what I felt then. But the negativity of the essay doesn\u2019t please me.<\/p>\n<p>I was influenced, in particular, by two writers and their ideas: first, the anti-nationalist Edwin Muir, poet and author of the great <em>Autobiography<\/em> spanning his life in Orkney and Glasgow; and by James Baldwin. The latter, who had already written for my magazine (\u201cOf the Sorrow Songs\u201d, an essay on jazz, appeared in the<em> New Edinburgh Review<\/em> in 1979) and with whom I had since become acquainted, was my idol above all others. His gospel appealed to me from the moment I read the first lines of <em>The Fire Next Time<\/em> on a Sunday evening train bound for Edinburgh\u2014I remember the moment vividly\u2014and his tone pierced me in a way that that of no Scottish (and certainly no English) writer had ever done. I didn\u2019t want to be wrapped snugly in a tartan tea-towel; I wanted to be a free man in Baldwin\u2019s difficult but fluid universe. His fingerprints are all over this essay, in ways perhaps discernible only to me.<\/p>\n<p>Paradoxically, I have matured into my Scottish nature in the years since I stopped living there. Nowadays, it is London that\u2019s more likely to feel like the \u201cblank\u201d\u2014Muir\u2019s word, but dished out by me in the essay with too much relish\u2014a metropolis with a population twice the size of Scotland\u2019s but no settled identity. I\u2019ve been fortunate in being able to stand with a foot planted on each side of the dividing torrent, and I feel it all the more so now that Scotland has voted to remain a part of Great Britain.<\/p>\n<p><p><em>Curious about how we covered something? E-mail me at <span>[email\u00a0protected]<\/span>. 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