Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)

Author of Selected Poems

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About the Author

Hugh MacDiarmid, one of the greatest figures in 20th century Scottish literature and the pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, was born on August 11, 1892 in Langholm, Scotland. After MacDiarmid served during World War I, he held jobs in political offices and as a teacher and a journalist. show more MacDiarmid published the poem "Annals of the Five," and "A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle," his most famous work. Hugh MacDiarmid died on September 9, 1978 (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Includes the names: C M Grieve, Hugh McDiarmid, Hugh Mcdiarmid, Hugh MacDiarmid, pseud. C.M.Grieve Hugh MacDiarmid, Michael and Alexander Scott (editiors) Grieve

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Works by Hugh MacDiarmid

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Selected Poems (1970) 131 copies, 2 reviews

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1971) 96 copies

Collected poems of Hugh MacDiarmid (1962) 31 copies, 1 review

The Hugh MacDiarmid anthology; poems in Scots and English (1972) 28 copies

The Complete Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid: Volume 1 (Penguin Modern Classics) (v. 1) (1985) 21 copies

Complete Poems 1920-1976 (1978) 21 copies

The golden treasury of Scottish poetry (1976) 19 copies

Lucky Poet: A Self Study in Literature and Political Ideas Being the Autobiography of Hugh Macdiarmid (1972) 18 copies

The Complete Poems: v. 2 (Penguin Modern Classics) (1985) 16 copies

Annals of the five senses: The first collected work by Hugh MacDiarmid (1983) 13 copies

Selected essays of Hugh MacDiarmid (1969) 11 copies

The socialist poems of Hugh MacDiarmid (1978) 11 copies

The company I've kept (1967) 10 copies

The islands of Scotland: Hebrides, Orkneys, and Shetlands, (1939) 9 copies

More collected poems (1970) 9 copies

Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry (2006) 9 copies

The letters of Hugh MacDiarmid (1984) 8 copies

Scottish eccentrics (1993) 7 copies

A lap of honour (1967) 7 copies

Aesthetics in Scotland (1984) 6 copies

A Clyack-Sheaf (1969) 6 copies

Sangschaw 5 copies

The Complete Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid: Volume III (Penguin Modern Classics) (1993) 5 copies

Speaking for Scotland (1946) 5 copies

The Revolutionary Art of the Future: Rediscovered Poems (2003) 5 copies

The uncanny Scot : a selection of prose (1968) 5 copies

Complete Poems (2017) 4 copies

Selected Prose (1992) 4 copies

Contemporary Scottish studies (1995) 4 copies

In memoriam James Joyce, from a vision of world language 3 copies

The Complete Poems of Hugh Macdiarmid: Volume II: v. 2 3 copies

Poems [of] Hugh MacDiarmid, and a pibroch on his 80th birthday (1972) 2 copies

Northern Numbers: Scottish Poets 2 copies

Hugh MacDiarmid: The Raucle Tongue - Hitherto Uncollected Prose Volume 2: v. 2 (1997) 2 copies

Direadh I, II, and III (2015) 2 copies

Albyn ; or, Scotland and the future 2 copies

40 tea chests : Hugh MacDiarmid and Shetland (2010) 2 copies

In Memoriam James Joyce (1955) 2 copies

John Knox (1976) 2 copies

The fire of the spirit : two poems 2 copies

The thistle rises : an anthology of poetry and prose (1984) 2 copies

Cornish heroic song for Valda Trevlyn ; and, Once in a Cornish garden (1977) 2 copies

Collected poems 2 copies

Lines Review New Poetry Scotland 5 1 copy

Lines Review- New Poetry Scotland 4 1 copy

The Kind of Poetry I Want (1961) 1 copy

Hugh MacDiarmid 1st edit/1 print The Company I've Kept Essays in Autobiography 1967 [Hardcover] MacDiarmid, Hugh… 1 copy

The Voice of Scotland : vol. v, no. 2 (December 1948) 1 copy

Hugh MacDiarmid. (1986) 1 copy

Albyn : shorter books and monographs (1997) 1 copy

The Islands of Scotland 1 copy

Song of the Seraphim (1973) 1 copy

Selected Poems of William Dunbar (1955) 1 copy

Northern Numbers being Representative Selections from Certain Living Scottish Poets 1 copy

Second hymn to Lenin : and other poems 1 copy

First hymn to Lenin and other poems 1 copy

Stony limits and other poems 1 copy

Poems addressed to Hugh MacDiarmid, and presented to him on his seventy-fifth birthday by John M. Bett [and others] 1 copy

Selected Poems of Hugh Macdiarmid (1944) 1 copy

The age of MacDiarmid : essays on Hugh MacDiarmid and his influence on contemporary Scotland (1980) 1 copy

Poetry like the Hawthorn. From "In memoriam James Joyce." 1 copy

Penny Wheep 1 copy

Sangschaw & Penny Wheep : the lyric poems 1 copy

Three hymns to Lenin; [poems] 1 copy

The Battle Continues 1 copy

Five Bits Of Miller 1 copy

Den ¤slags poesi jeg vil have 1 copy

An afternoon with Hugh MacDiarmid : interview recorded at Brownsbank on 25th October 1968 1 copy

Hugh Macdiarmid: Selected Poems 1 copy

To circumjack Cencrastus; or, The curly snake 1 copy

Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid 1 copy

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Associated Works

World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contributor — 469 copies, 1 review

A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (1954) — Contributor, some editions — 457 copies, 2 reviews

The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology (1992) — Contributor — 413 copies, 3 reviews

The Faber Book of Modern Verse (1936) — Contributor, some editions — 294 copies, 2 reviews

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Contributor — 258 copies, 1 review

British Poetry Since 1945 (1970) — Contributor, some editions — 170 copies, 2 reviews

The Faber Book of Beasts (1997) — Contributor — 148 copies, 1 review

The Poet's Work: 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art (1979) — Contributor — 91 copies, 1 review

The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology (1990) — Contributor — 64 copies, 1 review

The Third Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1966) — Contributor — 53 copies

Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001 (2014) — Contributor — 47 copies, 1 review

Scottish Stories of Fantasy and Horror (1971) — Contributor — 45 copies, 1 review

Thrills, Crimes and Mysteries (1936) — Contributor — 10 copies

Collected poems, 1941-1975 (1975) — Introduction — 10 copies

Apocalypse: An Anthology (2020) — Contributor — 3 copies

Little Reviews Anthology 1945 — Contributor, some editions — 1 copy

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