Stormy Weather:Edwin Morgan's Third Scottish InternationalLenin

This essay reads the poetological engagement of the Scottish poet-translator Edwin Morgan (1920-2010) with the consequences of the phenomenon called ‘Lenin’. It posits Morgan as an attuned and dynamic reader, as well as critical and virtuosic practitioner, in poetry, of the Leninisms of language and their Internationale-forming potentialities or immanences, through the Aesopian to the sloganological modes;<br/>for Morgan, poetry itself, mediated via the name ‘Lenin’, is the mode of immanent critique, the site of the still-possible revolution of the word, and the litmus-test of and for the dialectic, and an internationalized Scotland is its crucible.