Description
Book SynopsisThe only full-length companion available to this distinctive and challenging Scottish poet 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.
Table of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface; Brief Biography of Hugh MacDiarmid; Editions and Abbreviations; Introduction, Scott Lyall and Margery Palmer McCulloch; 1. MacDiarmid and International Modernism, Roderick Watson; 2. MacDiarmid's Language, Dorian Grieve; 3. C. M. Grieve / Hugh MacDiarmid, Editor and Essayist, Alan Riach; 4. Transcending the Thistle in A Drunk Man and Cencrastus, Margery Palmer McCulloch and Kirsten Matthews; 5. MacDiarmid, Communism and the Poetry of Commitment, Scott Lyall; 6. MacDiarmid and Ecology, Louisa Gairn; 7.The Use of Science in MacDiarmid's Later Poetry, Michael H. Whitworth; 8. Hugh MacDiarmid's (Un)making of the Modern Scottish Nation, Carla Sassi; 9. Hugh MacDiarmid: The Impossible Persona, David Goldie; 10. Transatlantic MacDiarmid, Jeffrey Skoblow; 11. MacDiarmid's Ambitions, Legacy and Reputation, Margery Palmer McCulloch; Endnotes; Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index.
