Abstract
By using previously uncollected creative and discursive writings, this international group of contributors presents a vital updating of MacDiarmid scholarship. They bring fresh insights to major poems such as A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, To Circumjack Cencrastus and In Memoriam James Joyce, and offer new political, ecological and science-based readings in relation to MacDiarmid's work from the 1930s. They also discuss his experimental short fiction in Annals of the Five Senses, the autobiographical Lucky Poet, and a representative selection of his essays and journalism. They assess MacDiarmid's legacy and reputation in Scotland and beyond, placing his poetry within the context of international modernism.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Edinburgh companion to Hugh MacDiarmid |
| Editors | Scott Lyall, Margery Palmer McCulloch |
| Place of Publication | Edinburgh |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780748641895 |
| Publication status | Published - 16 May 2011 |
Keywords
- MacDiarmid
- Scottish literature
- poems