One pound Scots: prickly genius. (Hugh MacDiarmid)

The Economist (US) | August 15, 1992 | Copyright

LIKE one of his famous thistles, wiry and bristling and painful to grasp, Hugh MacDiarmid has been bobbing on a peak above all other Scottish writers for three generations. MacDiarmid was the nom de guerre of a mild-mannered postmaster's son, Christopher Grieve. Since his death in 1978, his reputation has continued to spread ever wider beyond Scotland. He is increasingly recognised for what he truly is--one of the titans of modernism.

The Manchester-based publisher Carcanet is marking the centenary of Grieve's birth with a project called MacDiarmid 2000, by which year ...

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