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A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
19 November, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free, ticketedMarking the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s landmark poem, “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle” – a 2685-line work in Scots that is colloquial, lyrical, & highly literary, blending tradition with modernism & exploring both national & international themes
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-drunk-man-looks-at-the-thistle-tickets-1999760348033
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid #modernism
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A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
19 November, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free, ticketedMarking the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s landmark poem, “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle” – a 2685-line work in Scots that is colloquial, lyrical, & highly literary, blending tradition with modernism & exploring both national & international themes
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-drunk-man-looks-at-the-thistle-tickets-1999760348033
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid #modernism
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A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
19 November, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free, ticketedMarking the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s landmark poem, “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle” – a 2685-line work in Scots that is colloquial, lyrical, & highly literary, blending tradition with modernism & exploring both national & international themes
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-drunk-man-looks-at-the-thistle-tickets-1999760348033
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid #modernism
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A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
19 November, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free, ticketedMarking the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s landmark poem, “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle” – a 2685-line work in Scots that is colloquial, lyrical, & highly literary, blending tradition with modernism & exploring both national & international themes
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-drunk-man-looks-at-the-thistle-tickets-1999760348033
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid #modernism
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The deid-hole’s a sma-boukit place for you.
You need tae be blawn aboot the cosmos
so’s your live matter mells wi the spaces
and you become the stour starns are made o…—Alastair Mackie: In Memoriam Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)
Christopher Murray Grieve – Hugh MacDiarmid – died #OTD, 9 September
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #HughMacDiarmid #InMemoriam
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The deid-hole’s a sma-boukit place for you.
You need tae be blawn aboot the cosmos
so’s your live matter mells wi the spaces
and you become the stour starns are made o…—Alastair Mackie: In Memoriam Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)
Christopher Murray Grieve – Hugh MacDiarmid – died #OTD, 9 September
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #HughMacDiarmid #InMemoriam
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The deid-hole’s a sma-boukit place for you.
You need tae be blawn aboot the cosmos
so’s your live matter mells wi the spaces
and you become the stour starns are made o…—Alastair Mackie: In Memoriam Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)
Christopher Murray Grieve – Hugh MacDiarmid – died #OTD, 9 September
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #HughMacDiarmid #InMemoriam
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The deid-hole’s a sma-boukit place for you.
You need tae be blawn aboot the cosmos
so’s your live matter mells wi the spaces
and you become the stour starns are made o…—Alastair Mackie: In Memoriam Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)
Christopher Murray Grieve – Hugh MacDiarmid – died #OTD, 9 September
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #HughMacDiarmid #InMemoriam
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2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”. For Gies a Scots Poem Day, Colin Bramwell invited some of the standard-bearers of present-day Scots poetry to compose new work responding to MacDiarmid & his legacy
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/gies-a-scots-poem-day-2026/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #GiesAScotsPoemDay #HughMacDiarmid
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2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”. For Gies a Scots Poem Day, Colin Bramwell invited some of the standard-bearers of present-day Scots poetry to compose new work responding to MacDiarmid & his legacy
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/gies-a-scots-poem-day-2026/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #GiesAScotsPoemDay #HughMacDiarmid
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2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”. For Gies a Scots Poem Day, Colin Bramwell invited some of the standard-bearers of present-day Scots poetry to compose new work responding to MacDiarmid & his legacy
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/gies-a-scots-poem-day-2026/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #GiesAScotsPoemDay #HughMacDiarmid
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2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”. For Gies a Scots Poem Day, Colin Bramwell invited some of the standard-bearers of present-day Scots poetry to compose new work responding to MacDiarmid & his legacy
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/gies-a-scots-poem-day-2026/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #GiesAScotsPoemDay #HughMacDiarmid
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Lourd on my hert as winter lies
The state that Scotland’s in the day.
Spring to the North has aye come slow
But noo dour winter’s like to stay
For guid,
And no’ for guid!—Hugh MacDiarmid, “Lourd on My Hert”
published in SELECTED POETRY (New Directions, 1993)https://www.ndbooks.com/book/selected-poetry/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #HughMacDiarmid #Scots #Scotslanguage #winter
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Lourd on my hert as winter lies
The state that Scotland’s in the day.
Spring to the North has aye come slow
But noo dour winter’s like to stay
For guid,
And no’ for guid!—Hugh MacDiarmid, “Lourd on My Hert”
published in SELECTED POETRY (New Directions, 1993)https://www.ndbooks.com/book/selected-poetry/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #HughMacDiarmid #Scots #Scotslanguage #winter
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Lourd on my hert as winter lies
The state that Scotland’s in the day.
Spring to the North has aye come slow
But noo dour winter’s like to stay
For guid,
And no’ for guid!—Hugh MacDiarmid, “Lourd on My Hert”
published in SELECTED POETRY (New Directions, 1993)https://www.ndbooks.com/book/selected-poetry/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #HughMacDiarmid #Scots #Scotslanguage #winter
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Lourd on my hert as winter lies
The state that Scotland’s in the day.
Spring to the North has aye come slow
But noo dour winter’s like to stay
For guid,
And no’ for guid!—Hugh MacDiarmid, “Lourd on My Hert”
published in SELECTED POETRY (New Directions, 1993)https://www.ndbooks.com/book/selected-poetry/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #HughMacDiarmid #Scots #Scotslanguage #winter
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The Little White Rose
(To John Gawsworth)The rose of all the world is not for me.
I want for my part
Only the little white rose of Scotland
That smells sharp and sweet—and breaks the heart.—Hugh MacDiarmid, “The Little White Rose”
A poem for St Andrew’s Day 🏴
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46800/the-little-white-rose
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scotland #HughMacDiarmid #StAndrewsDay
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The Little White Rose
(To John Gawsworth)The rose of all the world is not for me.
I want for my part
Only the little white rose of Scotland
That smells sharp and sweet—and breaks the heart.—Hugh MacDiarmid, “The Little White Rose”
A poem for St Andrew’s Day 🏴
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46800/the-little-white-rose
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scotland #HughMacDiarmid #StAndrewsDay
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The Little White Rose
(To John Gawsworth)The rose of all the world is not for me.
I want for my part
Only the little white rose of Scotland
That smells sharp and sweet—and breaks the heart.—Hugh MacDiarmid, “The Little White Rose”
A poem for St Andrew’s Day 🏴
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46800/the-little-white-rose
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scotland #HughMacDiarmid #StAndrewsDay
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The Little White Rose
(To John Gawsworth)The rose of all the world is not for me.
I want for my part
Only the little white rose of Scotland
That smells sharp and sweet—and breaks the heart.—Hugh MacDiarmid, “The Little White Rose”
A poem for St Andrew’s Day 🏴
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46800/the-little-white-rose
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scotland #HughMacDiarmid #StAndrewsDay
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The Bonnie Broukit Bairn
Hugh MacDiarmidMars is braw in crammasy,
Venus in a green silk goun,
The auld mune shak’s her gowden feathers,
Their starry talk’s a wheen o’ blethers,
Nane for thee a thochtie sparin’,
Earth, thou bonnie broukit bairn!
– But greet, an’ in your tears ye’ll droun
The haill clanjamfrie!#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid
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The Bonnie Broukit Bairn
Hugh MacDiarmidMars is braw in crammasy,
Venus in a green silk goun,
The auld mune shak’s her gowden feathers,
Their starry talk’s a wheen o’ blethers,
Nane for thee a thochtie sparin’,
Earth, thou bonnie broukit bairn!
– But greet, an’ in your tears ye’ll droun
The haill clanjamfrie!#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid
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The Bonnie Broukit Bairn
Hugh MacDiarmidMars is braw in crammasy,
Venus in a green silk goun,
The auld mune shak’s her gowden feathers,
Their starry talk’s a wheen o’ blethers,
Nane for thee a thochtie sparin’,
Earth, thou bonnie broukit bairn!
– But greet, an’ in your tears ye’ll droun
The haill clanjamfrie!#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid
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The Bonnie Broukit Bairn
Hugh MacDiarmidMars is braw in crammasy,
Venus in a green silk goun,
The auld mune shak’s her gowden feathers,
Their starry talk’s a wheen o’ blethers,
Nane for thee a thochtie sparin’,
Earth, thou bonnie broukit bairn!
– But greet, an’ in your tears ye’ll droun
The haill clanjamfrie!#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid
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The deid-hole’s a sma-boukit place for you.
You need tae be blawn aboot the cosmos
so’s your live matter mells wi the spaces
and you become the stour starns are made o…—Alastair Mackie: In Memoriam Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)
Christopher Murray Grieve – Hugh MacDiarmid – died #OTD, 9 September
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid
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The deid-hole’s a sma-boukit place for you.
You need tae be blawn aboot the cosmos
so’s your live matter mells wi the spaces
and you become the stour starns are made o…—Alastair Mackie: In Memoriam Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)
Christopher Murray Grieve – Hugh MacDiarmid – died #OTD, 9 September
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid
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The deid-hole’s a sma-boukit place for you.
You need tae be blawn aboot the cosmos
so’s your live matter mells wi the spaces
and you become the stour starns are made o…—Alastair Mackie: In Memoriam Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)
Christopher Murray Grieve – Hugh MacDiarmid – died #OTD, 9 September
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid
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The deid-hole’s a sma-boukit place for you.
You need tae be blawn aboot the cosmos
so’s your live matter mells wi the spaces
and you become the stour starns are made o…—Alastair Mackie: In Memoriam Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)
Christopher Murray Grieve – Hugh MacDiarmid – died #OTD, 9 September
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid
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“SANGSCHAW… gave other writers permission to push the boundaries of Scots as a language of literature, capable of expressing deep thought and not just for light comedy or mawkish whimsy”
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s first book
https://www.thenational.scot/culture/25436484.100-year-tribute-hugh-macdiarmid-marking-crucial-work/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid
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“SANGSCHAW… gave other writers permission to push the boundaries of Scots as a language of literature, capable of expressing deep thought and not just for light comedy or mawkish whimsy”
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s first book
https://www.thenational.scot/culture/25436484.100-year-tribute-hugh-macdiarmid-marking-crucial-work/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid
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“SANGSCHAW… gave other writers permission to push the boundaries of Scots as a language of literature, capable of expressing deep thought and not just for light comedy or mawkish whimsy”
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s first book
https://www.thenational.scot/culture/25436484.100-year-tribute-hugh-macdiarmid-marking-crucial-work/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid
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“SANGSCHAW… gave other writers permission to push the boundaries of Scots as a language of literature, capable of expressing deep thought and not just for light comedy or mawkish whimsy”
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s first book
https://www.thenational.scot/culture/25436484.100-year-tribute-hugh-macdiarmid-marking-crucial-work/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #HughMacDiarmid
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Hugh MacDiarmid 'Rebel Poet', BBC documentary, originally broadcast 1972.
“Poets are a very small minority of people who for some obscure reason, have failed to grow up. In other words, they're natural rebels.” -
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Hugh MacDiarmid 'Rebel Poet', BBC documentary, originally broadcast 1972.
“Poets are a very small minority of people who for some obscure reason, have failed to grow up. In other words, they're natural rebels.” -
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Hugh MacDiarmid 'Rebel Poet', BBC documentary, originally broadcast 1972.
“Poets are a very small minority of people who for some obscure reason, have failed to grow up. In other words, they're natural rebels.” -
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Hugh MacDiarmid 'Rebel Poet', BBC documentary, originally broadcast 1972.
“Poets are a very small minority of people who for some obscure reason, have failed to grow up. In other words, they're natural rebels.” -
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Today, October 8, is (naturally) #OctopusDay … Hugh MacDiarmid embraced the octopus as a many-branched model of the cosmos in his epic “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”
Extract 👇 from Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry, ed. Alan Riach & Michael Grieve (Carcanet, 2004)
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781857547566
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #HughMacDiarmid #20thcentury #modernism
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Today, October 8, is (naturally) #OctopusDay … Hugh MacDiarmid embraced the octopus as a many-branched model of the cosmos in his epic “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”
Extract 👇 from Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry, ed. Alan Riach & Michael Grieve (Carcanet, 2004)
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781857547566
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #HughMacDiarmid #20thcentury #modernism
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Today, October 8, is (naturally) #OctopusDay … Hugh MacDiarmid embraced the octopus as a many-branched model of the cosmos in his epic “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”
Extract 👇 from Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry, ed. Alan Riach & Michael Grieve (Carcanet, 2004)
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781857547566
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #HughMacDiarmid #20thcentury #modernism
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Today, October 8, is (naturally) #OctopusDay … Hugh MacDiarmid embraced the octopus as a many-branched model of the cosmos in his epic “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”
Extract 👇 from Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry, ed. Alan Riach & Michael Grieve (Carcanet, 2004)
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781857547566
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #HughMacDiarmid #20thcentury #modernism
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132 years ago today. Christopher Murray Grieve, better known as Hugh MacDiarmid, was born on 11 August 1892. Widely regarded as the most important Scottish poet of the 20th Century, this is his memorial near Langholm by the sculptor, Jake Harvey. More: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/mac/hughmacdiarmid.html
#Scotland #OnThisDay #HughMacDiarmid #Memorial #Langholm #UndiscoveredScotland
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132 years ago today. Christopher Murray Grieve, better known as Hugh MacDiarmid, was born on 11 August 1892. Widely regarded as the most important Scottish poet of the 20th Century, this is his memorial near Langholm by the sculptor, Jake Harvey. More: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/mac/hughmacdiarmid.html
#Scotland #OnThisDay #HughMacDiarmid #Memorial #Langholm #UndiscoveredScotland
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132 years ago today. Christopher Murray Grieve, better known as Hugh MacDiarmid, was born on 11 August 1892. Widely regarded as the most important Scottish poet of the 20th Century, this is his memorial near Langholm by the sculptor, Jake Harvey. More: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/mac/hughmacdiarmid.html
#Scotland #OnThisDay #HughMacDiarmid #Memorial #Langholm #UndiscoveredScotland
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132 years ago today. Christopher Murray Grieve, better known as Hugh MacDiarmid, was born on 11 August 1892. Widely regarded as the most important Scottish poet of the 20th Century, this is his memorial near Langholm by the sculptor, Jake Harvey. More: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/mac/hughmacdiarmid.html
#Scotland #OnThisDay #HughMacDiarmid #Memorial #Langholm #UndiscoveredScotland
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John Davidson grew up in Greenock, a son of the manse – although he soon rebelled against his father’s religious beliefs. A prolific writer, he influenced many #Modernist writers such as WB Yeats, Wallace Stevens, TS Eliot, Virginia Woolf & Hugh MacDiarmid
#Scottish #literature #poetry #19thCentury #Victorian #Modernism #WBYeats #WallaceStevens #TSEliot #VirginiaWoolf #HughMacDiarmid
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/apr/18/poem-of-the-week-john-davidson
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John Davidson grew up in Greenock, a son of the manse – although he soon rebelled against his father’s religious beliefs. A prolific writer, he influenced many #Modernist writers such as WB Yeats, Wallace Stevens, TS Eliot, Virginia Woolf & Hugh MacDiarmid
#Scottish #literature #poetry #19thCentury #Victorian #Modernism #WBYeats #WallaceStevens #TSEliot #VirginiaWoolf #HughMacDiarmid
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/apr/18/poem-of-the-week-john-davidson
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John Davidson grew up in Greenock, a son of the manse – although he soon rebelled against his father’s religious beliefs. A prolific writer, he influenced many #Modernist writers such as WB Yeats, Wallace Stevens, TS Eliot, Virginia Woolf & Hugh MacDiarmid
#Scottish #literature #poetry #19thCentury #Victorian #Modernism #WBYeats #WallaceStevens #TSEliot #VirginiaWoolf #HughMacDiarmid
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/apr/18/poem-of-the-week-john-davidson
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John Davidson grew up in Greenock, a son of the manse – although he soon rebelled against his father’s religious beliefs. A prolific writer, he influenced many #Modernist writers such as WB Yeats, Wallace Stevens, TS Eliot, Virginia Woolf & Hugh MacDiarmid
#Scottish #literature #poetry #19thCentury #Victorian #Modernism #WBYeats #WallaceStevens #TSEliot #VirginiaWoolf #HughMacDiarmid
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/apr/18/poem-of-the-week-john-davidson
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Have missed this gem until recently. Via Landmarks by @RobGMacfarlane
Brilliant. @scotlit
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/scotland-small
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Have missed this gem until recently. Via Landmarks by @RobGMacfarlane
Brilliant. @scotlit
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/scotland-small
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Have missed this gem until recently. Via Landmarks by @RobGMacfarlane
Brilliant. @scotlit
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/scotland-small
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Have missed this gem until recently. Via Landmarks by @RobGMacfarlane
Brilliant. @scotlit
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/scotland-small
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131 years ago today. Christopher Murray Grieve, better known as Hugh MacDiarmid, was born on 11 August 1892. Widely regarded as the most important Scottish poet of the 20th Century, this is his memorial near Langholm by the sculptor, Jake Harvey. More: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/mac/hughmacdiarmid.html
#Scotland #OnThisDay #HughMacDiarmid #Memorial #Langholm #UndiscoveredScotland
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131 years ago today. Christopher Murray Grieve, better known as Hugh MacDiarmid, was born on 11 August 1892. Widely regarded as the most important Scottish poet of the 20th Century, this is his memorial near Langholm by the sculptor, Jake Harvey. More: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/mac/hughmacdiarmid.html
#Scotland #OnThisDay #HughMacDiarmid #Memorial #Langholm #UndiscoveredScotland
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131 years ago today. Christopher Murray Grieve, better known as Hugh MacDiarmid, was born on 11 August 1892. Widely regarded as the most important Scottish poet of the 20th Century, this is his memorial near Langholm by the sculptor, Jake Harvey. More: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/mac/hughmacdiarmid.html
#Scotland #OnThisDay #HughMacDiarmid #Memorial #Langholm #UndiscoveredScotland
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131 years ago today. Christopher Murray Grieve, better known as Hugh MacDiarmid, was born on 11 August 1892. Widely regarded as the most important Scottish poet of the 20th Century, this is his memorial near Langholm by the sculptor, Jake Harvey. More: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/mac/hughmacdiarmid.html
#Scotland #OnThisDay #HughMacDiarmid #Memorial #Langholm #UndiscoveredScotland
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“Joyce considered how the ‘sister’ nations Ireland and Scotland might be linked through similar philosophical traditions, MacDiarmid saw modern Irish cultural and political developments as a source of inspiration for Scotland, and Heaney turned to the Buile Suibhne story as a way of stressing cultural commonalities between the north and south of Ireland, as well as between #Ireland and #Scotland.”
#Scottish #Irish #literature #JamesJoyce #HughMacDiarmid #SeamusHeaney
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“Joyce considered how the ‘sister’ nations Ireland and Scotland might be linked through similar philosophical traditions, MacDiarmid saw modern Irish cultural and political developments as a source of inspiration for Scotland, and Heaney turned to the Buile Suibhne story as a way of stressing cultural commonalities between the north and south of Ireland, as well as between #Ireland and #Scotland.”
#Scottish #Irish #literature #JamesJoyce #HughMacDiarmid #SeamusHeaney
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“Joyce considered how the ‘sister’ nations Ireland and Scotland might be linked through similar philosophical traditions, MacDiarmid saw modern Irish cultural and political developments as a source of inspiration for Scotland, and Heaney turned to the Buile Suibhne story as a way of stressing cultural commonalities between the north and south of Ireland, as well as between #Ireland and #Scotland.”
#Scottish #Irish #literature #JamesJoyce #HughMacDiarmid #SeamusHeaney
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“Joyce considered how the ‘sister’ nations Ireland and Scotland might be linked through similar philosophical traditions, MacDiarmid saw modern Irish cultural and political developments as a source of inspiration for Scotland, and Heaney turned to the Buile Suibhne story as a way of stressing cultural commonalities between the north and south of Ireland, as well as between #Ireland and #Scotland.”
#Scottish #Irish #literature #JamesJoyce #HughMacDiarmid #SeamusHeaney