Hugh MacDiarmid is widely considered the most significant Scottish
poet since Robert Burns and the major literary force in
twentieth-century Scottish culture. His poetry is both compelling
in its intellectual challenge and captivating in its lyrical
beauty. This book explores the principal thematic and aesthetic
preoccupations in MacDiarmid's work, relating his poetry to key
national and international concerns in modern culture and politics.
It offers a vital updating of MacDiarmid scholarship through
contributions by leading scholars of the modern period which
provide a contextual and interpretive guide to this challenging
writer. All of MacDiarmid's major poetic works are examined in
addition to a representative selection of his diverse output in
other genres, from journalism to shorter fiction, autobiography and
political polemic. His poetry and his place in the cultural history
of Scottish, British and international modernism will be
contemporised through consideration of his significance from a
European, transatlantic and ecological global perspective. This
collection of essays on MacDiarmid will draw on the creative and
discursive writings made newly available through the recent
publication of previously uncollected work. Key features: * Updates
and internationalises MacDiarmid studies * Provides informed
analysis and contextualisation of MacDiarmid's poetry through close
readings of texts * Utilises recently published MacDiarmid material
* Contributes to a re-drawing of the map of international literary
modernism
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