β Scribed by MacDiarmid, Hugh; Riach, Alan; Grieve, Michael
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Cover; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Reading Hugh MacDiarmid; Recalling Hugh MacDiarmid; Chronology; from Sonnets of the Highland Hills; Well Hung; A Moment in Eternity; The Fool; A Last Song; The Dying Earth; The Bonnie Broukit Bairn; The Watergaw; The Sauchs in the Reuch Heuch Hauch; Ex vermibus; Au Clair de la Lune; Crowdieknowe; The Eemis Stane; The Innumerable Christ; Wheesht, Wheesht; Focherty; The Love-sick Lass; The Dead Liebknecht; Scunner; Servant Girl's Bed; Empty Vessel; Gairmscoile; A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle; Lourd on My Hert; from Frae Anither Window in Thrums.;Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve, 1892-1978), one of the major poets of the twentieth century, is the greatest Scottish poet of any century. He drew on the literary and vernacular traditions of Scottish culture, revitalising the Scots language to create a literature that is modern, engaged and experimental, both nationalist and international in its range. This selection explores the diversity of MacDiarmid's work, from delicate lyrics derived from the Scots ballad tradition to fierce polemic. It includes the whole of his greatest work, A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926), a.
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