Hugh MacDIARMID (C.M. Grieve) was born in
Langholm and after war service settled in Montrose as a journalist, with
his Scottish Chapbook (1922-23) promoting the Scots language. Scotland’s
most influential and controversial writer of the 20th century, he urged
the regeneration of all aspects of Scottish literature and culture. A
Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926), with its synthesis of Braid or
Lowland Scots and other sources, is generally cited as the masterwork of
modem Scottish poetry. In 1928 he was a founding member of the National
Party of Scotland. His Collected Poems and many volumes of prose have
been published over the past decade. The Watergaw’, from Sangshaw
(1925), uncannily links the rainbow to the expression on the face of a
dying friend.
The Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry
Selected and Edited by Hugh MacDiarmid (1941)
There is a Wiki Entry for
him which says...
Christopher Murray
Grieve, known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid (11 August 1892 – 9
September 1978), was a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist, and
political figure.
He was instrumental in
creating a Scottish version of modernism and was a leading light in
the Scottish Renaissance of the 20th century. Unusually for a first
generation modernist, he was a communist. Much of MacDiarmid's political
life, however, was spent advancing the cause of Scottish nationalism. He
wrote both in English and in what he referred to as "Synthetic Scots": a
literary version of the Scots language that is sometimes referred to as Lallans.
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