I’ll ha’e nae hauf-way hoose, but aye be whaur
Extremes meet – it’s the only way I ken
To dodge the curst conceit o’ bein’ richt
That damns the vast majority o’ men.
—from “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”
A 🎂🧵 for Hugh MacDiarmid—born #OTD, 11 Aug 1892
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/hugh-macdiarmid
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid
“What MacDiarmid keeps giving is a depth of understanding, an imperative to go out into the world and explore it, and the priority of the patience needed to appreciate it. That is his provenance, one hundred years since.”
—Alan Riach, on 100 Years of Hugh MacDiarmid
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2023/02/100-years-of-hugh-macdiarmid/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid
In the one hundred years since the name Hugh M‘Diarmid first appeared in print, I’ve spent the last thirty of them trying to make his work more available, in Scotland and internationally. Since 1992, when Carcanet began publishing MacDiarmid’s collected works under my General Editorship, his readership has grown and diminished and grown again; his […]
“Only this paradox can explain why he was at certain points in his life an admirer of Italian fascism, a Social Credit Douglasite, a major member of the militaristic nationalist group ‘Clann Albain’, a Scottish Nationalist, and a Communist, amongst other things”
A Man in Constant Revolt: Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry of World War Two
Richie McCaffery, International Review of Scottish Studies 43 (2018)
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https://www.irss.uoguelph.ca/index.php/irss/article/view/4541
#Scottish #literature #poetry #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid
“It appears that this man writes rather good revolutionary poetry […]. He is a rabid Scottish Nationalist, but is in close touch with the [Communist] Party”
—1931 British Security Service report
read “Hugh MacDiarmid & the British State”, by Scott Lyall
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2015/06/hugh-macdiarmid-and-the-british-state/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #politics #Communism #ScottishNationalism #MacDiarmid
“Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue”
—Oxford Union Debate, 3 Dec 1964
Extremism in Poiesis and Praxis: Hugh MacDiarmid, Malcolm X, and Barry Goldwater, Oxford 1964
—Corey Gibson on Hugh MacDiarmid, Malcolm X, & their common cultural-political agenda. Published in Modernism/Modernity 3/1 (2018)
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https://modernismmodernity.org/articles/extremism-poiesis
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Scots #modernism #20thcentury #politics #MalcolmX
Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait
Margaret Tait’s affectionate 1964 biography of Hugh MacDiarmid
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8f3BbuqaiY
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid
Hugh MacDiarmid at 100
A special issue of STUDIES IN SCOTTISH LITERATURE, evolved from papers delivered at the conference ‘MacDiarmid at 100’, held on 31 August 2022 to mark the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s first appearance in print under that name
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https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol49/iss1/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid
The Little White Rose
(To John Gawsworth)
The rose of all the world is not for me.
I want for my part
Only the little white rose of Scotland
That smells sharp and sweet—and breaks the heart.
—Hugh MacDiarmid
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46800/the-little-white-rose
#Scottish #literature #poetry #poem #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid
Assoc for Scottish Literature
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