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    Press Hugh MacDiarmid reading his poetry at the Poetry Archive Second Hymn to Lenin by Hugh MacDiarmid HUGH MACDIARMID: A Portrait Film about MacDiarmid at...
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    experienced a resurgence during the Scottish Renaissance, as led by Hugh MacDiarmid. Within politics, Scottish nationalism was held as a key ideology by...
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  • of James Leslie Mitchell).: 326, 333, 339  Like his contemporary, Hugh MacDiarmid, Gunn was politically committed to the ideals of both Scottish nationalism...
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  • McDiarmid, also MacDiarmid, is an Irish surname originating from a high king of Ireland circa 657 AD, popular in Scotland. Notable people with this surname...
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  • as Hugh MacDiarmid and Douglas Young. He was wounded three times while serving in the Royal Corps of Signals during the North African Campaign. MacLean...
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    renaissance in the use of Scots occurred, its most vocal figure being Hugh MacDiarmid whose benchmark poem "A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle" (1926) did...
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  • Patrick Geddes and in a 1922 book review by Christopher Murray Grieve ("Hugh MacDiarmid") for the Scottish Chapbook that predicted a "Scottish Renascence as...
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    pronunciation: [ə drʌŋk ˈman luks ət ðə ˈθɪsl̩]) is a long poem by Hugh MacDiarmid written in Scots and published in 1926. It is composed as a form of...
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    Islands; and a Topographical Description of the Country. Menzies. 1874. Hugh MacDiarmid, the Scots poet and writer, lived in Whalsay from the mid-1930s through...
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  • Edinburgh-based Rose Street Poets, whose ranks included Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley Maclean and Norman MacCaig. From 1955 to 1961 she was a member of the ruling...
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