Hugh MacDiarmid: The Poetry of Self

✍ Scribed by John Baglow

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 270
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Christopher Grieve, writing under the name of Hugh MacDiarmid, was a major modern poet and founder of the Scottish literary Renaissance. In this study of his poetry, John Baglow eliminates what has been a stumbling block for most MacDiarmid scholars by showing the very real thematic and psycological consistency which underlines MacDiarmid's work. He demonstrates the extent to which the work was dominated by a desire to find a faith that could justify his desire to write poetry, a desire continually thwarted by a critical intellect which destroyed whatever faith he was able to construct. This constant search without a successful conclusion is at the heart of the work of many major modernist writers; MacDiarmid's poetry can be seen as embracing this tradition and making it explicit.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Hugh MacDiarmid and His Age
2 The Early Lyrics: The World and the Self
3 Uncouth Dilemmas
4 The Poetry of Particulars
5 Speaking in Tongues: The Final Statements
6 Conclusion: The Problems of the Modern Poet
Appendix: MacDiarmid and His Critics
Glossary
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Notes
Bibliography
Index of Poems
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General Index
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