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Hugh MacDiarmid

Born

in Langholm, Dumfriesshire, Scotland

August 11, 1892

Died

September 09, 1978

Genre

Poetry, Culture

Influences

Francis George Scott, Patrick Geddes, Friedrich Nietzsche, W.B.Yeats, ...more

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Christopher Murray Grieve, known by his pen name, Hugh MacDiarmid, was a Scottish poet and cultural activist.

MacDiarmid was instrumental in creating a Scottish version of modernism and was a leading light in the Scottish Renaissance of the 20th century. Unusually for a first generation modernist, he was a communist; unusually for a communist, he was a committed Scottish nationalist. He wrote in English and literary Scots (sometimes referred to as Lallans).

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	A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle 4.15 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 1969 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poems by Hugh MacDiarmid, John Manson (Editor), David Craig (Editor) 3.70 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1934 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poetry by Hugh MacDiarmid, Alan Riach (Editor), Michael Grieve (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid, Volume 1 by Hugh MacDiarmid, Michael Grieve (Editor), William R. Aitken (Editor) 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1978 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Complete Poems, Volume II by Hugh MacDiarmid, Michael Grieve (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1985 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Socialist Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1978	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collected Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid by Hugh MacDiarmid, John C. Weston (Editor) 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Annals of the Five Senses: The First Collected Work by Hugh MacDiarmid by Hugh MacDiarmid, Alan Bold (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1923 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hugh MacDiarmid Anthology: Poems in Scots and English really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1972 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Revolutionary Art of the Future: Rediscovered Poems by Hugh MacDiarmid, John Manson (Editor), Dorian Grieve (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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MacDiarmid 2000; the Collected Works from Carcanet (11 books)
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The Voice of Scotland (4 books)
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Quotes by Hugh MacDiarmid (?)

“And until that day comes every true man's place/
is to reject all else and be with the lowest,/
the poorest - in the bottom of that deepest of wells/
in which alone is truth; in which
is truth only - truth that should shine like the sun,/
with a monopoly of movement, and a sound like talking to God.”
― Hugh MacDiarmid

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“We are so easily baffled by appearances
And do not realize that these stones are one with the stars.”
― Hugh MacDiarmid

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“It requires great love of it deeply to read
The configuration of a land,
Gradually grow conscious of fine shadings,
Of great meanings in slight symbols,
Hear at last the great voice that speaks softly,
See the swell and fall upon the flank
Of a statue carved out in a whole country’s marble,
Be like Spring, like a hand in a window
Moving New and Old things carefully to and fro,
Moving a fraction of flower here,
Placing an inch of air there,
And without breaking anything.
So I have gathered unto myself
All the loose ends of Scotland,
And by naming them and accepting them,
Loving them and identifying myself with them,
Attempt to express the whole.”
― Hugh MacDiarmid, The Complete Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid, Volume 1

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