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Hugh MacDiarmid
This volume includes the full texts of In Memoriam James Joyce, Three Hymns to Lenin, and The Kind of Poetry I Want. Included are long poems and intense lyrics.
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To Circumjack MacDiarmid
More than Eliot or Pound, the career of Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid reflects the restless nature of the modern age. From his early opposition to poetry in Scots to the triumphant use of dialect in Sangschaw; from these exquisite lyrics to the long dynamic poems A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle and To Circumjack Cencrastus; from the abandonment of Scots to the glacial, 'scientific' English of the unassembled Mature Art - most critics have limited themselves to a single phase of MacDiarmid's career. This study attempts, in his own phrase, to 'circumjack' or 'fully explicate' a troubling but brilliant author. Examining his earliest work, Herbert posits a symbolic structure which governs all MacDiarmid's periods, as well as explaining his need for ceaseless change. MacDiarmid emerges as a modernist of international stature, but also as a radical experimenter whose work anticipates post-modernist concerns.
Hugh MacDiarmid
C. M. Grieve, or 'Hugh MacDiarmid' as he is best known, has written under both names, and in this he seems to be following a Scottish custom (one could instance 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon') and J. Leslie Mitchell, or 'James Bridie' and O. H. Mavor). But whether two, or more than two identities meet in his work, there is no doubt that he is one of the most far-ranging, original, and remarkable poets of his time. Apart from his natural abilities, and the recognizable quality of his best work, Hugh MacDiarmid has a noted historical importance in Scotland in the double aim he proposed to himself in the 1920s, of reviving and extending the use of Scots into a full medium of expression, and of initiati...
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