The Letters of Hugh MacDiarmid

by Hugh MacDiarmid, Alan Bold (Editor)

MacDiarmid, Hugh

910 pages, Hardcover

First published August 16, 1984

About the author

Christopher Murray Grieve, known by his pen name, Hugh MacDiarmid, was a Scottish poet and cultural activist.

MacDiarmid was instrumental in creating a Scottish version of modernism and was a leading light in the Scottish Renaissance of the 20th century. Unusually for a first generation modernist, he was a communist; unusually for a communist, he was a committed Scottish nationalist. He wrote in English and literary Scots (sometimes referred to as Lallans).