The Edinburgh companion to Hugh MacDiarmid

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.

Citation

Lyall, S., & McCulloch, M. P. (Eds.). (2011). The Edinburgh companion to Hugh MacDiarmid. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

• Book Type: Edited Book
• Publication Date: 2011
• Deposit Date: Mar 25, 2011
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Book Title: The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid
• ISBN: 978-0748641895
• Keywords: Hugh MacDiarmid; modernism; Scottish culture; Scottish Renaissance; national identity
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4306