Hugh MacDiarmid
Personal Information
Description
Scottish poet, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve (1892–1978)
Books
Correspondence
Poems
The revolutionary art of the future
"The Revolutionary Art of the Future is a selection from three hundred poems by Hugh MacDiarmid discovered by John Manson in the archives of the National Library of Scotland in 2003. Almost all of them appear in print for the first time."--BOOK JACKET.
New selected letters
"'These great people like MacDiarmid are a bit scary,' says the Scottish poet Liz Lochhead. And Kathleen Jamie: 'Drunk? Men? Thistle? What?...No. No, not for me.'" "It was not ever thus. Dlyan Thomas declared: 'Every door in any town should be wide open to that great lyric poet Hugh MacDiarmid.' Sean O'Casey was of a like mind: 'Lord God, this fellow is a poet, singing a song even when pain seizes him, or the woe of the world murmurs in his heart'; and Yeats wrote to him to say, 'You have done many lovely and passionate things.' His beloved sparring partner Norman MacCaig issued a warning; 'Watch him, an angel's set his tongue on fire.'" "The extraordinary man he was, brilliant, volatile, deeply prejudiced, deeply generous, emerges most compellingly in his letters. There have been previous collections but none so essential as this, composed exclusively of letters not previously published in volume form and drawn from his long and controversial life. Among the three editors is his own grandson, Dorian Grieve."--BOOK JACKET.
Albyn
Pamphlets and articles on Scottish literature and life, published between 1927 and 1972.
