'Hugh MacDiarmid prepared the ground for a Scottish literature that would be self-critical and experimental in relation to its own inherited forms and idioms, but one that would also be stimulated by developments elsewhere in world literature.' Seamus Heaney
'a major modernist poet and the greatest since Burns to use Scots language.' Angus Calder, The Sunday Times
'the towering literary figure of 20th-century Scotland' Shirley English, The Times
'the great maverick figure of twentieth-century Scottish literature.' Lesley Duncan, The Herald
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Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978) is the pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, father of the Scottish Literary Renaissance and the greatest Scottish writer of the twentieth century. Since his death, his literary and political influence have remained incalculable. | ||
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The Revolutionary Art of the Future £6.95 edited with an introduction by John Manson, Dorian Grieve and Alan Riach published by Carcanet Press 26th October isbn 1857547330 |
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The Revolutionary Art of the Future is a selection
from three hundred poems by Hugh MacDiarmid discovered by John Manson in
the archives of the National Library of Scotland in 2003. This is the
first time many of them have appeared in print.
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More informaion on Hugh MacDiarmid and a range of his books are available from Carcanet Press and all good bookshops | |||