MacDIARMID, Hugh
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MacDIARMID, Hugh, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve [1892–1978]. Scottish poet, critic, and polemicist, leader of the
LALLANS movement. Born and educated in Langholm, a Border town whose dialect and traditions contributed to the striking individuality of his poetic style, Grieve was a founder (1928) of the National Party of Scotland (expelled 1933) and a member of the Communist Party (expelled 1938, rejoined 1956). Although passionately committed to Scottish cultural and political nationalism, he was at first unconvinced of the viability of
SCOTS for 20c poetry. His discovery of the extent and expressiveness of Scots vocabulary, however, particularly as recorded in Jamieson's
Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language (1808), prompted him to experiment with a Synthetic Scots, first for short lyrics, then for extended metaphysical poem-sequences (most importantly
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, 1926) showing a linguistic virtuosity and a spirit of philosophical exploration not attempted in Scots poetry since medieval times. His success in revitalizing poetry in the language has been marked.
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; HUGH MacDiarmid, Scotland's greatest 20th century...debate among the authorities over whether MacDiarmid, who died in 1978, should be arrested...cover the years 1932 to 1943, tell how MacDiarmid, whose real name was Christopher Murray...
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Letters shed light on tangled love-life of poet MacDiarmid
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; ...unpublished letters written by Hugh MacDiarmid is set to change forever the...marriage. New Selected Letters of Hugh MacDiarmid contains more than 500 unpublished...published in 1926 under the pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid. Contempt and praise were heaped...
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Heaney to deliver MacDiarmid Lecture
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; ...winner is to give its inaugural MacDiarmid Lecture. Seamus Heaney will deliver a tribute to Hugh MacDiarmid, who, according to the Irish...invited back to give the first Hugh MacDiarmid Lecture."
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Shostakovich, MacDiarmid and the day the cold war melted in Scotland A hundred years after his birth, critic still can't agree whether Russia's greatest composer was as genius or a coward.
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; ...George Hotel during the 1962 Edinburgh Festival, were Hugh MacDiarmid, pianist and composer Ronald Stevenson and the 56...Hotel. The distinguished visitor was introduced to MacDiarmid, whose ideological vicissitudes seemed to some as...
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; ...peers. The unpublished piece by Hugh MacDiarmid was found in the archives of...Thanksgivings for "Peace" by Hugh MacDiarmid, written in early October 1938...tragic treachery." Although Hugh MacDiarmid, born Christopher Murray Grieve...
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Hugh MacDiarmid
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hugh MacDiarmid , pseud. of Christopher Murray Grieve, 1892-1978, Scottish poet...More Collected Poems (1971), and The Socialist Poems (1978). MacDiarmid was a masterful poet in both English and Scots, which he revived as...
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MacDiarmid, Hugh
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
MacDiarmid, Hugh, the pseudonym of Christopher Murray...awareness of what Scotland can be. MacDiarmid's Scots literary renaissance of the...officials of his native Langholm. MacDiarmid scored some of his greatest poetic...
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MacDIARMID, Hugh
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
MacDIARMID, Hugh, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve [1892–1978]. Scottish poet, critic, and polemicist, leader of the LALLANS...
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LALLANS
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...the 1920s for eclectic literary SCOTS . Following Hugh MACDIARMID's aim of restoring dignity and copiousness to Scots...ridiculed as Plastic Scots . The following excerpt from MacDiarmid's ‘The Eemis Stane’ ( Sangschaw...
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Christopher Murray Grieve
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Christopher Murray Grieve see MacDiarmid, Hugh .
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