Author · Scotland
Hugh MacDiarmid
Died in 1978
Christopher Murray Grieve, who signed as Hugh MacDiarmid, was born on 11 August 1892 in Langholm, a small town in the Borders, the son of a postman, and worked as a journalist before devoting himself to poetry. He founded the National Party of Scotland in 1928 and was expelled from it for communism, joined the Communist Party and was expelled from it for nationalism. He wrote in English and in a literary Scots that he shaped himself, and his work is regarded as the main force of the Scottish Renaissance. He died on 9 September 1978 in Edinburgh.
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- PoetryA Drunk Man Looks at the ThistleHugh MacDiarmid · 1926Literature