The Complete Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid, Volume 2

MacDiarmid 2000; the Collected Works from Carcanet

by Hugh MacDiarmid, Michael Grieve (Editor), William R. Aitken (Editor)

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.

Genres: Poetry

755 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

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).