Selected Poetry

Selected Poetry PDF Author: Hugh MacDiarmid
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811212489
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Hugh MacDiarmid's Selected Poetry is an invaluable introduction to the work of a major poet who, despite the enthusiasm of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, remains little known in the United States. MacDiarmid (1892-1978), universally recognized as the greatest Scottish poet since Robert Burns and the man responsible for reviving Scots as a literary language, was also the author of an enormous body of poems in English. As the noted critic and translator Eliot Weinberger writes of MacDiarmid's work in his introduction: "There is nothing like it in modern literature, nothing even close. It is an attempt to return poetry to its original role as repository for all that a culture knows about itself." Edited by Alan Riach and the poet's son Michael Grieve, the Selected Poetry draws generously from fifty years of work, and includes the complete text of MacDiarmid's 1926 masterpiece, "A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle."

Selected Poetry

Selected Poetry PDF Author: Hugh MacDiarmid
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811212489
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Book Description
Hugh MacDiarmid's Selected Poetry is an invaluable introduction to the work of a major poet who, despite the enthusiasm of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, remains little known in the United States. MacDiarmid (1892-1978), universally recognized as the greatest Scottish poet since Robert Burns and the man responsible for reviving Scots as a literary language, was also the author of an enormous body of poems in English. As the noted critic and translator Eliot Weinberger writes of MacDiarmid's work in his introduction: "There is nothing like it in modern literature, nothing even close. It is an attempt to return poetry to its original role as repository for all that a culture knows about itself." Edited by Alan Riach and the poet's son Michael Grieve, the Selected Poetry draws generously from fifty years of work, and includes the complete text of MacDiarmid's 1926 masterpiece, "A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle."

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle PDF Author: Hugh MacDiarmid
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Hugh MacDiarmid's Epic Poetry

Hugh MacDiarmid's Epic Poetry PDF Author: Riach Alan Riach
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474471994
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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A collection of Hugh McDiarmid's poetry

Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry and Politics of Place

Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry and Politics of Place PDF Author: Scott Lyall
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748630058
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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By examining at length for the first time those places in Scotland that inspired MacDiarmid to produce his best poetry, Scott Lyall shows how the poet's politics evolved from his interaction with the nation, exploring how MacDiarmid discovered a hidden tradition of radical Scottish Republicanism through which he sought to imagine a new Scottish future. Adapting postcolonial theory, this book allows readers a fuller understanding not only of MacDiarmid's poetry and politics, but also of international modernism, and the social history of Scottish modernism.

The Complete Poems

The Complete Poems PDF Author: Sir Thomas Wyatt
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 562

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As a diplomat in Renaissance Europe, and a luminary at the court of Henry VII, Sir Thomas Wyatt wrote in an incestuous world where everyone was uneasily subject to the royal whims and rages. Wyatt had himself survived two imprisonments in the Tower as well as a love affair with Anne Boleyn, and his poetry - that of an extraordinarily sophisticated, passionate and vulnerable man - reflects these experiences, making disguised reference to current political events. Above all, though, Wyatt is known for his love poetry, which often dramatizes incidents and remembered conversations with his beloved, with an ear acutely sensitive to patterns of rhythm and colloquial speech. Conveying the actuality of betrayal or absence, and the intense pressure of his longing for a love that could be trusted, these are some of the most haunting poems in the English language.

MacDiarmid

MacDiarmid PDF Author: Alan Bold
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 9780870237140
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 506

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A biography of Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978). Examines not only his literary career in both Scots and English verse, but also his political work as a communist, cofounder of the Scottish National Party, and frequent candidate for Parliament. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland,

Sangschaw

Sangschaw PDF Author: Hugh MacDiarmid
Publisher:
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Category : Dialect poetry, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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Penny Wheep

Penny Wheep PDF Author: Hugh MacDiarmid
Publisher:
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Category : Scottish poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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The Revolutionary Art of the Future

The Revolutionary Art of the Future PDF Author: Hugh MacDiarmid
Publisher: Carcanet Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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A selection from 300 recently discovered poems by Hugh MacDiarmid, who 25 years after his death is still a dissenting voice, are presented in this collection. The power of derisive laughter and the poetic imagination to combat ignorance, prejudice, and stupidity are celebrated by MacDiarmid in these provocative poems on sexuality and marriage. Many of the poems satirize the hypocrisy of the church and bourgeois complacency and powerfully indict the brutality of imperialism and its consequences for war. Discovered by John Manson in the archives of the National Library of Scotland, this is the first time many of these poems have appeared in print.

Hugh MacDiarmid

Hugh MacDiarmid PDF Author: Hugh MacDiarmid
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217811
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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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.