THE NATIONAL POETRY
FOUNDATION
HUGH MacDIARMID: MAN AND POET
Nancy Gish, Editor
For Scotland, Hugh MacDiarmid defined an era. Outside of Scotland,
critical theory has only recent developed in ways that can address
the full range of his work and the complexities of his cultural
position and analysis. Hugh MacDiarmid: Man and Poet
reexamines these questions at the centennial mark,bringing
together for the first time scholars, poets, and writers from
Scotland, Ireland, England, and theUnited States.
The 333-page volume is divided into five sections: "Grieve and
MacDiarmid: Portrait(s) of a Poet," "In Memoriam Hugh MacDiarmid,"
"'The Company I've Kept': Contexts and Intertexts," "'Whaur Extremes
Meet': The Work," and "Bibliography," an annotated bibliography of
works by and about Hugh MacDiarmid, compiled by W. R. Aitken.
Examining MacDiarmid's poetry, politics, and linguistic experimentation, this collection includes not only essays on the multiple facets of his work, but a wide range of theoretical perspectives. It thus helps to place MacDiarmid in twentieth century critical views and to define his position on the crux of modernism and post-modernism.
1993 333 pages
Cloth $40.00 (0-943373-20-4)
Paper $25.00 (0-943373-21-2)
"Come, follow me into the realm of music. Here is the gate
which separates the earthly from the eternal."
("Plaited Like the Generations of Men")