The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid

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• The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh Macdiarmid i
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Abbreviations and Notes viii
• Notes ix
• Series Editors’ Preface x
• Brief Biography of Hugh Macdiarmid xi
• Introduction 1
• Chapter One- Macdiarmid and International Modernism 6
• Chapter Two- Macdiarmid’s Language 23
• Chapter Three- C. M. Grieve/Hugh Macdiarmid, Editor and Essayist 36
• Chapter Four- Transcending the Thistle in a Drunk Man and Cencrastus 48
• Chapter Five- Macdiarmid, Communism and the Poetry of Commitment 68
• Chapter Six- Macdiarmid and Ecology 82
• Chapter Seven- The Use of Science in Hugh Macdiarmid’s Later Poetry 97
• Chapter Eight- Hugh Macdiarmid’s (Un)Making of the Modern Scottish Nation 111

• The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh Macdiarmid i
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Abbreviations and Notes viii
• Notes ix
• Series Editors’ Preface x
• Brief Biography of Hugh Macdiarmid xi
• Introduction 1
• Chapter One- Macdiarmid and International Modernism 6
• Chapter Two- Macdiarmid’s Language 23
• Chapter Three- C. M. Grieve/Hugh Macdiarmid, Editor and Essayist 36
• Chapter Four- Transcending the Thistle in a Drunk Man and Cencrastus 48
• Chapter Five- Macdiarmid, Communism and the Poetry of Commitment 68
• Chapter Six- Macdiarmid and Ecology 82
• Chapter Seven- The Use of Science in Hugh Macdiarmid’s Later Poetry 97
• Chapter Eight- Hugh Macdiarmid’s (Un)Making of the Modern Scottish Nation 111
• Chapter Nine- Hugh Macdiarmid- The Impossible Persona 125
• Chapter Ten- Transatlantic Macdiarmid 136
• Chapter Eleven- Macdiarmid’s Ambitions, Legacy and Reputation 149
• Endnotes 160
• Further Reading 180
• Notes on Contributors 187
• Index 189