Selected Poetry

Selected Poetry

Author: Hugh MacDiarmid

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780811212489

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Hugh MacDiarmid's Selected Poetry is an invaluable introduction to the work of a major poet who, despite the enthusiasm of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, remains little known in the United States. MacDiarmid (1892-1978), universally recognized as the greatest Scottish poet since Robert Burns and the man responsible for reviving Scots as a literary language, was also the author of an enormous body of poems in English. As the noted critic and translator Eliot Weinberger writes of MacDiarmid's work in his introduction: "There is nothing like it in modern literature, nothing even close. It is an attempt to return poetry to its original role as repository for all that a culture knows about itself." Edited by Alan Riach and the poet's son Michael Grieve, the Selected Poetry draws generously from fifty years of work, and includes the complete text of MacDiarmid's 1926 masterpiece, "A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle."


The Revolutionary Art of the Future

The Revolutionary Art of the Future

Author: Hugh MacDiarmid

Publisher: Carcanet Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13:

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A selection from 300 recently discovered poems by Hugh MacDiarmid, who 25 years after his death is still a dissenting voice, are presented in this collection. The power of derisive laughter and the poetic imagination to combat ignorance, prejudice, and stupidity are celebrated by MacDiarmid in these provocative poems on sexuality and marriage. Many of the poems satirize the hypocrisy of the church and bourgeois complacency and powerfully indict the brutality of imperialism and its consequences for war. Discovered by John Manson in the archives of the National Library of Scotland, this is the first time many of these poems have appeared in print.


Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry and Politics of Place

Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry and Politics of Place

Author: Scott Lyall

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2006-08-28

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0748630058

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By examining at length for the first time those places in Scotland that inspired MacDiarmid to produce his best poetry, Scott Lyall shows how the poet's politics evolved from his interaction with the nation, exploring how MacDiarmid discovered a hidden tradition of radical Scottish Republicanism through which he sought to imagine a new Scottish future. Adapting postcolonial theory, this book allows readers a fuller understanding not only of MacDiarmid's poetry and politics, but also of international modernism, and the social history of Scottish modernism.


The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry

The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry

Author: Jahan Ramazani

Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 1136

ISBN-13: 9780393324297

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A new revision of the classic anthology presents 195 poets and 1,596 poems representing the range of English language modern and contemporary poetry.


MacDiarmid

MacDiarmid

Author: Alan Bold

Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 9780870237140

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A biography of Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978). Examines not only his literary career in both Scots and English verse, but also his political work as a communist, cofounder of the Scottish National Party, and frequent candidate for Parliament. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland,