Hugh MacDiarmid Summary

Biography EssayHugh MacDiarmid has long been considered the greatest Scottish poet since Robert Burns. That might not be the most impressive of distinctions, but his admirers would add that his work h... Read more

Critical Essay by Matthew P. Mcdiarmid The early MacDiarmid writes pure poetry. Later he will wish, unfairly, to say poor poetry. So much misleading talk has been heard about Sangschaw and Pennywheep... Read more

Critical Essay by Iain Crichton Smith When one discusses the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid one is forced to make an evaluation of the importance of ideas in poetry or to put it another way to discuss how... Read more

Critical Essay by Edwin Morgan The first poetry [MacDiarmid] wrote was in English, and was not particularly distinguished. Gradually and deviously, between 1921 and 1923, he began to move towards the... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement Mr MacDiarmid in his introduction rightly calls the present republication [of his 1926 Contemporary Scottish Studies] "a sign of the times... Read more

Critical Essay by David Wright For twenty years I've believed Hugh MacDiarmid, along with Yeats, Pound, and Eliot, to be one of the four great pioneer poets of our century. Now I know it. T... Read more