biography
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MacDiarmid, Hugh
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pseudonym of Christopher Murray Grieve
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pronunciation:
[muhkdermid]
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| lived:
| (1892–1978)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Langholm, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland, UK. He became a pupil-teacher at Broughton Higher Grade School in Edinburgh before turning to journalism. After World War 1, he married, settled as a journalist in Montrose, and edited anthologies of contemporary Scottish writing. After publishing his outstanding early lyrical verse, Sangschaw (1925) and Penny Wheep (1926), he established himself as the leader of a vigorous Scottish Renaissance with A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926), full of political, metaphysical, and nationalistic reflections on the Scottish predicament. He became professor of literature at the Royal Scottish Academy (1974), and president of the Poetry Society (1976). He was a founder member of the Scottish Nationalist Party, and an active Communist. |
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