Work
He was awarded a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1978 for his thesis ''W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot and the Associationist Aesthetic''. He has published on authors including W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Iain Banks. His 1984 book on Yeats, Eliot, and Pound was described by Seamus Deane as lacking a little clarity, panache and focus, but offering an "engrossing" exploration of the relationship between modernism and reactionary politics, which he links via memory, and particularly Archibald Alison (author), Archibald Alison's theory of associationism; Deane called it "a complicated story, illustrated by Craig with such well-chosen and well-timed quotations that it is difficult to resist." In 1991 he wrote "Rooms without a view", an influential article attacking "heritage film". ''The Modern Scottish Novel: Narrative and the National Imagination'' (1999) brought a "modern, inclusive, skeptical intelligence" to the question of Scottish literature. He was general editor of the four-volume series ''History of Scottish Literature'' (published 1987-89). He has also been involved as editor or publisher with magazines including ''Cencrastus'', ''Edinburgh Review'' and ''Radical Scotland''.Publications
* ''The Body in the Kit Bag: History and the Scottish Novel'', in ''Cencrastus'' No. 1, Autumn 1979, pp. 18 – 22, * ''Fearful Selves: Character, Community and the Scottish Imagination'', in ''Cencrastus'' No. 4, Winter 1980-81, pp. 29 – 32, * ''Going Down to Hell is Easy: Alasdair Gray's 'Lanark, in Glen Murray (ed.), ''Cencrastus'' No. 6, Autumn 1981, pp. 19 - 21, * ''W.B. Yeats, Yeats, T.S.Eliot, Eliot, Ezra Pound, Pound and the Politics of Poetry'' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982), * ''Peripheries'', in ''Cencrastus'' No. 9, Summer 1982, pp. 3 - 5, * ''Giving Speech to the Silent'', which reviews ''Continuous: 50 Sonnets from The School of Eloquence'' by Tony Harrison and ''From the Domain of Arnheim'' by Alastair Fowler, in Hearn, Sheila G. (ed.), ''Cencrastus'' No. 10, Autumn 1982, pp. 43 & 44, * ''Visitors from the Stars: Scottish Film Culture'', in Hearn, Sheila G. (ed.), ''Cencrastus'' No. 11, New Year 1983, pp. 6 - 11, * ''An Interview with Kurt Vonnegut'' in Hearn, Sheila G. (ed.), ''Cencrastus'' No. 13, Summer 1983, pp. 29 - 31, * ''Lourd on My Hert'', which reviews ''Chapman (magazine), Chapman 35/36: The State of Scotland - A Predicament for the Scottish Writer?'', edited by Joy Hendry; ''Scotland: The Broken Image'' by Norman Allan; ''The State of Scotland: A Poem'', by Duncan Glen; and ''Europa's Lover'', by Douglas Dunn, in Hearn, Sheila G. (ed.), ''Cencrastus'' No. 15, New Year 1984, pp. 54 & 55, * ''George Orwell and the English Ideology'' (Part 1), in Hearn, Sheila G. (ed.), ''Cencrastus'' No. 16, Spring 1984, pp. 12 - 17, * ''George Orwell and the English Ideology'' (Part 2), in Parker, Geoff (ed.), ''Cencrastus'' No. 17, Summer 1984, pp. 10 - 15, * ''Nation and History'', in Parker, Geoff (ed.), ''Cencrastus'' No. 19, Winter 1984, pp. 13 - 16, * General editor, ''History of Scottish Literature'' (1987–89) * ''Out of History: Narrative Paradigms in Scottish and English Culture'' (Polygon,1996), * ''The Modern Scottish Novel: Narrative and the National Imagination'' (Edinburgh UP, 1999) * ''Iain Banks's Complicity: A Reader's Guide'' (Continuum, 2002) * ''Associationism and the Literary Imagination: From the Phantasmal Chaos'' (2007) * ''Intending Scotland: Explorations in Scottish Culture since the Scottish Enlightenment, Enlightenment'' (Edinburgh UP, 2009). * ''The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence'' (Edinburgh UP, 2018),Awards
* 2003: Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) * 2005: Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) * 2007: Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)Reviews
* Edwin Morgan (poet), Morgan, Edwin (1983), ''The Politics of Poetry'': review of ''Yeats, Eliot, Pound and the Politics of Poetry'', in Hearn, Sheila G. (ed.), ''Cencrastus'' No. 12, Spring 1983, p. 44,References
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