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    Press Hugh MacDiarmid reading his poetry at the Poetry Archive Second Hymn to Lenin by Hugh MacDiarmid HUGH MACDIARMID: A Portrait Film about MacDiarmid at...
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    experienced a resurgence during the Scottish Renaissance, as led by Hugh MacDiarmid. Within politics, Scottish nationalism was held as a key ideology by...
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  • as Hugh MacDiarmid and Douglas Young. He was wounded three times while serving in the Royal Corps of Signals during the North African Campaign. MacLean...
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  • Patrick Geddes and in a 1922 book review by Christopher Murray Grieve ("Hugh MacDiarmid") for the Scottish Chapbook that predicted a "Scottish Renascence as...
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    renaissance in the use of Scots occurred, its most vocal figure being Hugh MacDiarmid whose benchmark poem "A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle" (1926) did...
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    him as the highest of the three. Opinions have ranged from those of Hugh MacDiarmid, who called him "a complete wash-out"; F. R. Leavis, who wrote that...
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  • of James Leslie Mitchell).: 326, 333, 339  Like his contemporary, Hugh MacDiarmid, Gunn was politically committed to the ideals of both Scottish nationalism...
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    pronunciation: [ə drʌŋk ˈman luks ət ðə ˈθɪsl̩]) is a long poem by Hugh MacDiarmid written in Scots and published in 1926. It is composed as a form of...
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  • McDiarmid, also MacDiarmid, is an Irish surname originating from a high king of Ireland circa 657 AD, popular in Scotland. Notable people with this surname...
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    Islands; and a Topographical Description of the Country. Menzies. 1874. Hugh MacDiarmid, the Scots poet and writer, lived in Whalsay from the mid-1930s through...
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  • Trent University. He became known with his first full-length book, Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance. His many verse collections included from...
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  • Edinburgh-based Rose Street Poets, whose ranks included Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley Maclean and Norman MacCaig. From 1955 to 1961 she was a member of the ruling...
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  • independence, It was founded in 1967 by figures including Frederick Boothby, Hugh MacDiarmid, Oliver Brown, Douglas Young and Wendy Wood. Most of its founders were...
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    different form in the Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid's A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1928). In this poem, MacDiarmid applies Eliot's techniques to respond...
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  • (1882–1966) Leopoldo Lugones (1874–1938) Artur Lundkvist (1906–1991) Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978) Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) Antonio Machado...
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  • Hugh MacDiarmid, William Soutar and James Joyce) and works for solo piano. In 2007 he completed a choral symphony, Ben Dorain, on Hugh MacDiarmid's translation...
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    the '45 Gish, Nancy (1984). Hugh MacDiarmid: The Man and His Work. Macmillan. p. 25. ISBN 9781349056194. Hugh MacDiarmid Longniddry. Wikimedia Commons...
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    The leading figure in the movement was Hugh MacDiarmid (the pseudonym of Christopher Murray Grieve). MacDiarmid attempted to revive the Scots language...
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    original on 11 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018. MacDiarmid, Hugh, The Complete Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid, Volume I, (Eds. Michael Grieve & W. R. Aitken)...
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    by an artistic community that included Hugh MacDiarmid, Edwin Muir, William Lamb, Helen Cruickshank and Fionn MacColla. The local weekly newspaper, the...
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  • Caudwell". Monthlyreview.org. 12 February 2012. MacDiarmid, H. (1970). Selected Essays of Hugh MacDiarmid, ed. Duncan Glen, Cape, 1969, p.90 "Christopher...
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    neighbourhood of Edinburgh but was formerly in Broughton, where the poet Hugh MacDiarmid was a pupil. In 2016 the school was named in Tatlers list of top state...
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    poetry, mainly in Scots. She was described by a fellow Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid as "the most considerable of contemporary vernacular poets". Jacob...
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    Origin". 3 February 2017. MacDiarmid, H., MacGill-Eain, S. (2010:44). The Correspondence Between Hugh MacDiarmid and Sorley MacLean: An Annotated Edition...
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    Runrig, released in 1993. The cover features a close-up photo of the Hugh MacDiarmid Memorial, near Langholm, created by sculptor Jake Harvey. The Waterloo...
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    1928 of the National Party of Scotland along with Hugh MacDiarmid, R. B. Cunninghame Graham and John MacCormick. He was knighted in 1952. Edward Montague...
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  • journalist Norman Ian MacKenzie, assistant editor of the New Statesman Kingsley Martin, editor of the New Statesman Hugh MacDiarmid, poet and Scottish nationalist...
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    of Para Handy. This change in Munro's reputation was accelerated by Hugh MacDiarmid, who became a detractor of Munro's style. There was a minor revival...
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  • translated into English as Aniara, A Review of Man in Time and Space by Hugh MacDiarmid and E. Harley Schubert in 1963. It was translated again into English...
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    The leading figure in the movement was Hugh MacDiarmid (the pseudonym of Christopher Murray Grieve). MacDiarmid attempted to revive the Scots language...
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