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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456514103321

Autore

Lyall Scott

Titolo

The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-22171-3

9786613221711

0-7486-4633-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature

Altri autori (Persone)

McCullochMargery Palmer

Disciplina

821.912

Soggetti

English poetry -- 20th century

Poems

Poetry

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations and Notes; Series Editors' Preface; Brief Biography of Hugh MacDiarmid; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE MacDiarmid and International Modernism; CHAPTER TWO MacDiarmid's Language; CHAPTER THREE C. M. Grieve/Hugh MacDiarmid, Editor and Essayist; CHAPTER FOUR Transcending the Thistle in A Drunk Man and Cencrastus; CHAPTER FIVE MacDiarmid, Communism and the Poetry of Commitment; CHAPTER SIX MacDiarmid and Ecology; CHAPTER SEVEN The Use of Science in Hugh MacDiarmid's Later Poetry; CHAPTER EIGHT Hugh MacDiarmid's (Un)making of the Modern Scottish Nation

CHAPTER NINE Hugh MacDiarmid: The Impossible PersonaCHAPTER TEN Transatlantic MacDiarmid; CHAPTER ELEVEN MacDiarmid's Ambitions, Legacy and Reputation; Endnotes; Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the principal thematic and aesthetic preoccupations in MacDiarmid's work, relating his poetry to key national and international concerns in modern culture and politics.