Aesthetics in Scotland

by Hugh MacDiarmid, Alan Bold

This book, first written in 1950, with additions added in 1952 and 1965, is the first appearance in print of an unpublished work by Hugh MacDiarmid. In it, he explores in detail a philosophical area not usually associated with him and, for the first time, articulates at length those aesthetic principles that illuminated his long career.

100 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1950

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).