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  1. 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

    10/10

    poetryfoundation.org/poems/468

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scotland #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  2. 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

    10/10

    poetryfoundation.org/poems/468

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scotland #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  3. 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

    10/10

    poetryfoundation.org/poems/468

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scotland #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  4. 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

    10/10

    poetryfoundation.org/poems/468

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scotland #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  5. 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

    10/10

    poetryfoundation.org/poems/468

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scotland #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  6. Hugh MacDiarmid at 100

    A special issue of STUDIES IN SCOTTISH LITERATURE, evolved from papers delivered at the conference ‘MacDiarmid at 100’, held on 31 August 2022 to mark the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s first appearance in print under that name

    9/10

    scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol4

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  7. Hugh MacDiarmid at 100

    A special issue of STUDIES IN SCOTTISH LITERATURE, evolved from papers delivered at the conference ‘MacDiarmid at 100’, held on 31 August 2022 to mark the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s first appearance in print under that name

    9/10

    scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol4

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  8. Hugh MacDiarmid at 100

    A special issue of STUDIES IN SCOTTISH LITERATURE, evolved from papers delivered at the conference ‘MacDiarmid at 100’, held on 31 August 2022 to mark the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s first appearance in print under that name

    9/10

    scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol4

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  9. Hugh MacDiarmid at 100

    A special issue of STUDIES IN SCOTTISH LITERATURE, evolved from papers delivered at the conference ‘MacDiarmid at 100’, held on 31 August 2022 to mark the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s first appearance in print under that name

    9/10

    scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol4

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  10. Hugh MacDiarmid at 100

    A special issue of STUDIES IN SCOTTISH LITERATURE, evolved from papers delivered at the conference ‘MacDiarmid at 100’, held on 31 August 2022 to mark the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s first appearance in print under that name

    9/10

    scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol4

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  11. Scotland small? Our multiform, our infinite Scotland small?
    Only as a patch of hillside may be a cliché corner
    To a fool who cries ‘Nothing but heather!’ …

    —Hugh MacDiarmid, “Scotland Small?”
    published in SELECTED POETRY (Carcanet, 2004)

    7/10

    carcanet.co.uk/9781857547566/s

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  12. Scotland small? Our multiform, our infinite Scotland small?
    Only as a patch of hillside may be a cliché corner
    To a fool who cries ‘Nothing but heather!’ …

    —Hugh MacDiarmid, “Scotland Small?”
    published in SELECTED POETRY (Carcanet, 2004)

    7/10

    carcanet.co.uk/9781857547566/s

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  13. Scotland small? Our multiform, our infinite Scotland small?
    Only as a patch of hillside may be a cliché corner
    To a fool who cries ‘Nothing but heather!’ …

    —Hugh MacDiarmid, “Scotland Small?”
    published in SELECTED POETRY (Carcanet, 2004)

    7/10

    carcanet.co.uk/9781857547566/s

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  14. Scotland small? Our multiform, our infinite Scotland small?
    Only as a patch of hillside may be a cliché corner
    To a fool who cries ‘Nothing but heather!’ …

    —Hugh MacDiarmid, “Scotland Small?”
    published in SELECTED POETRY (Carcanet, 2004)

    7/10

    carcanet.co.uk/9781857547566/s

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  15. Scotland small? Our multiform, our infinite Scotland small?
    Only as a patch of hillside may be a cliché corner
    To a fool who cries ‘Nothing but heather!’ …

    —Hugh MacDiarmid, “Scotland Small?”
    published in SELECTED POETRY (Carcanet, 2004)

    7/10

    carcanet.co.uk/9781857547566/s

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  16. “Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue”
    —Oxford Union Debate, 3 Dec 1964

    Corey Gibson on Hugh MacDiarmid, Malcolm X, & their common cultural-political agenda
    Modernism/Modernity 3/1 (2018)

    6/10

    modernismmodernity.org/article

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #MalcolmX #OxfordUnion

  17. “Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue”
    —Oxford Union Debate, 3 Dec 1964

    Corey Gibson on Hugh MacDiarmid, Malcolm X, & their common cultural-political agenda
    Modernism/Modernity 3/1 (2018)

    6/10

    modernismmodernity.org/article

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #MalcolmX #OxfordUnion

  18. “Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue”
    —Oxford Union Debate, 3 Dec 1964

    Corey Gibson on Hugh MacDiarmid, Malcolm X, & their common cultural-political agenda
    Modernism/Modernity 3/1 (2018)

    6/10

    modernismmodernity.org/article

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #MalcolmX #OxfordUnion

  19. “Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue”
    —Oxford Union Debate, 3 Dec 1964

    Corey Gibson on Hugh MacDiarmid, Malcolm X, & their common cultural-political agenda
    Modernism/Modernity 3/1 (2018)

    6/10

    modernismmodernity.org/article

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #MalcolmX #OxfordUnion

  20. “Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue”
    —Oxford Union Debate, 3 Dec 1964

    Corey Gibson on Hugh MacDiarmid, Malcolm X, & their common cultural-political agenda
    Modernism/Modernity 3/1 (2018)

    6/10

    modernismmodernity.org/article

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #MalcolmX #OxfordUnion

  21. “It appears that this man writes rather good revolutionary poetry… He is a rabid Scottish Nationalist, but is in close touch with the [Communist] Party”
    —1931 Security Service report

    Read Prof Scott Lyall’s “Hugh MacDiarmid & the British State”

    4/10

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2015/06/hu

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #surveillance

  22. “It appears that this man writes rather good revolutionary poetry… He is a rabid Scottish Nationalist, but is in close touch with the [Communist] Party”
    —1931 Security Service report

    Read Prof Scott Lyall’s “Hugh MacDiarmid & the British State”

    4/10

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2015/06/hu

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #surveillance

  23. “It appears that this man writes rather good revolutionary poetry… He is a rabid Scottish Nationalist, but is in close touch with the [Communist] Party”
    —1931 Security Service report

    Read Prof Scott Lyall’s “Hugh MacDiarmid & the British State”

    4/10

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2015/06/hu

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #surveillance

  24. “It appears that this man writes rather good revolutionary poetry… He is a rabid Scottish Nationalist, but is in close touch with the [Communist] Party”
    —1931 Security Service report

    Read Prof Scott Lyall’s “Hugh MacDiarmid & the British State”

    4/10

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2015/06/hu

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #surveillance

  25. “It appears that this man writes rather good revolutionary poetry… He is a rabid Scottish Nationalist, but is in close touch with the [Communist] Party”
    —1931 Security Service report

    Read Prof Scott Lyall’s “Hugh MacDiarmid & the British State”

    4/10

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2015/06/hu

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #surveillance

  26. His corpse owre a’ the city lies
    In ilka square and ilka street
    His spilt bluid floods the vera skies
    And nae hoose but is darkened wi’t…

    —Hugh MacDiarmid, “The Dead Liebknecht”
    published in SELECTED POETRY (Carcanet, 2004)

    3/10

    carcanet.co.uk/9781857547566/s

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  27. His corpse owre a’ the city lies
    In ilka square and ilka street
    His spilt bluid floods the vera skies
    And nae hoose but is darkened wi’t…

    —Hugh MacDiarmid, “The Dead Liebknecht”
    published in SELECTED POETRY (Carcanet, 2004)

    3/10

    carcanet.co.uk/9781857547566/s

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  28. His corpse owre a’ the city lies
    In ilka square and ilka street
    His spilt bluid floods the vera skies
    And nae hoose but is darkened wi’t…

    —Hugh MacDiarmid, “The Dead Liebknecht”
    published in SELECTED POETRY (Carcanet, 2004)

    3/10

    carcanet.co.uk/9781857547566/s

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  29. His corpse owre a’ the city lies
    In ilka square and ilka street
    His spilt bluid floods the vera skies
    And nae hoose but is darkened wi’t…

    —Hugh MacDiarmid, “The Dead Liebknecht”
    published in SELECTED POETRY (Carcanet, 2004)

    3/10

    carcanet.co.uk/9781857547566/s

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  30. His corpse owre a’ the city lies
    In ilka square and ilka street
    His spilt bluid floods the vera skies
    And nae hoose but is darkened wi’t…

    —Hugh MacDiarmid, “The Dead Liebknecht”
    published in SELECTED POETRY (Carcanet, 2004)

    3/10

    carcanet.co.uk/9781857547566/s

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  31. “What MacDiarmid keeps giving is a depth of understanding, an imperative to go out into the world & explore it, & the priority of the patience needed to appreciate it. That is his provenance, one hundred years since”

    —Alan Riach on 100 years of “Hugh MacDiarmid”

    2/10

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2023/02/10

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  32. “What MacDiarmid keeps giving is a depth of understanding, an imperative to go out into the world & explore it, & the priority of the patience needed to appreciate it. That is his provenance, one hundred years since”

    —Alan Riach on 100 years of “Hugh MacDiarmid”

    2/10

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2023/02/10

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  33. “What MacDiarmid keeps giving is a depth of understanding, an imperative to go out into the world & explore it, & the priority of the patience needed to appreciate it. That is his provenance, one hundred years since”

    —Alan Riach on 100 years of “Hugh MacDiarmid”

    2/10

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2023/02/10

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  34. “What MacDiarmid keeps giving is a depth of understanding, an imperative to go out into the world & explore it, & the priority of the patience needed to appreciate it. That is his provenance, one hundred years since”

    —Alan Riach on 100 years of “Hugh MacDiarmid”

    2/10

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2023/02/10

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  35. “What MacDiarmid keeps giving is a depth of understanding, an imperative to go out into the world & explore it, & the priority of the patience needed to appreciate it. That is his provenance, one hundred years since”

    —Alan Riach on 100 years of “Hugh MacDiarmid”

    2/10

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2023/02/10

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  36. I’ll ha’e nae hauf-way hoose, but aye be whaur
    Extremes meet – it’s the only way I ken
    To dodge the curst conceit o’ bein’ richt
    That damns the vast majority o’ men.

    —from “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”

    A 🎂🧵 for Hugh MacDiarmid—born #OTD, 11 Aug 1892

    1/10

    poetryfoundation.org/poets/hug

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  37. I’ll ha’e nae hauf-way hoose, but aye be whaur
    Extremes meet – it’s the only way I ken
    To dodge the curst conceit o’ bein’ richt
    That damns the vast majority o’ men.

    —from “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”

    A 🎂🧵 for Hugh MacDiarmid—born #OTD, 11 Aug 1892

    1/10

    poetryfoundation.org/poets/hug

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  38. I’ll ha’e nae hauf-way hoose, but aye be whaur
    Extremes meet – it’s the only way I ken
    To dodge the curst conceit o’ bein’ richt
    That damns the vast majority o’ men.

    —from “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”

    A 🎂🧵 for Hugh MacDiarmid—born #OTD, 11 Aug 1892

    1/10

    poetryfoundation.org/poets/hug

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  39. I’ll ha’e nae hauf-way hoose, but aye be whaur
    Extremes meet – it’s the only way I ken
    To dodge the curst conceit o’ bein’ richt
    That damns the vast majority o’ men.

    —from “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”

    A 🎂🧵 for Hugh MacDiarmid—born #OTD, 11 Aug 1892

    1/10

    poetryfoundation.org/poets/hug

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  40. I’ll ha’e nae hauf-way hoose, but aye be whaur
    Extremes meet – it’s the only way I ken
    To dodge the curst conceit o’ bein’ richt
    That damns the vast majority o’ men.

    —from “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”

    A 🎂🧵 for Hugh MacDiarmid—born #OTD, 11 Aug 1892

    1/10

    poetryfoundation.org/poets/hug

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

  41. But Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream,
    Fitful and dark,
    Unseizable in Leith
    And wildered by the Forth…

    —Hugh MacDiarmid, “Midnight”
    published in The Complete Poems (1978)

    Today, 18 April, is World Heritage Day. Edinburgh’s medieval Old Town & Georgian New Town form one of Scotland’s UNESCO World Heritage sites

    historicenvironment.scot/advic

    #Scottish #Literature #WorldHeritageDay #architecture #builtenvironment #poem #poetry #Edinburgh #MacDiarmid

  42. But Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream,
    Fitful and dark,
    Unseizable in Leith
    And wildered by the Forth…

    —Hugh MacDiarmid, “Midnight”
    published in The Complete Poems (1978)

    Today, 18 April, is World Heritage Day. Edinburgh’s medieval Old Town & Georgian New Town form one of Scotland’s UNESCO World Heritage sites

    historicenvironment.scot/advic

    #Scottish #Literature #WorldHeritageDay #architecture #builtenvironment #poem #poetry #Edinburgh #MacDiarmid

  43. But Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream,
    Fitful and dark,
    Unseizable in Leith
    And wildered by the Forth…

    —Hugh MacDiarmid, “Midnight”
    published in The Complete Poems (1978)

    Today, 18 April, is World Heritage Day. Edinburgh’s medieval Old Town & Georgian New Town form one of Scotland’s UNESCO World Heritage sites

    historicenvironment.scot/advic

    #Scottish #Literature #WorldHeritageDay #architecture #builtenvironment #poem #poetry #Edinburgh #MacDiarmid

  44. But Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream,
    Fitful and dark,
    Unseizable in Leith
    And wildered by the Forth…

    —Hugh MacDiarmid, “Midnight”
    published in The Complete Poems (1978)

    Today, 18 April, is World Heritage Day. Edinburgh’s medieval Old Town & Georgian New Town form one of Scotland’s UNESCO World Heritage sites

    historicenvironment.scot/advic

    #Scottish #Literature #WorldHeritageDay #architecture #builtenvironment #poem #poetry #Edinburgh #MacDiarmid

  45. But Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream,
    Fitful and dark,
    Unseizable in Leith
    And wildered by the Forth…

    —Hugh MacDiarmid, “Midnight”
    published in The Complete Poems (1978)

    Today, 18 April, is World Heritage Day. Edinburgh’s medieval Old Town & Georgian New Town form one of Scotland’s UNESCO World Heritage sites

    historicenvironment.scot/advic

    #Scottish #Literature #WorldHeritageDay #architecture #builtenvironment #poem #poetry #Edinburgh #MacDiarmid

  46. The Bonnie Broukit Bairn
    Hugh MacDiarmid

    Mars 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

  47. The Bonnie Broukit Bairn
    Hugh MacDiarmid

    Mars 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

  48. The Bonnie Broukit Bairn
    Hugh MacDiarmid

    Mars 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