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Hugh MacDiarmid
1892 - 1978
Hugh MacDiarmid
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Primary

Ed. Northern Numbers, 3 vols, (1920-22);

Annals of the Five Senses (1923);

Sangschaw (1925);

Penny Wheep (1926);

Contemporary Scottish Studies (1926);

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926);

ed., Robert Burns 1759-1796 (1926);

Albyn, or Scotland and the Future (1927);

The Lucky Bag (1927);

The Present Position of Scottish Music (1927);

The Present Position of Scottish Arts and Affairs (1928);

The Scottish National Association of April Fools (1928);

Scotland in 1980 (1929);

The Handmaid of the Lord (1930);

To Circumjack Cencrastus (1930);

ed., Living Scottish Poets (1931);

0 wha's been here before me Lass (1931);

First Hymn to Lenin and Other Poems (1931);

Warning Democracy (1931);

Scots Unbound and Other Poems (1932);

Second Hymn to Lenin (1932);

Tarras (1932);

At the Sign of the Thistle (1934);

Five Bits of Miller (1934);

with Lewis Grassic Gibbon: Scottish Scene or the Intelligent Man's Guide to Albyn (1934);

Selected Poems (1934);

Stony Limits and Other Poems (1934);

The Birlinn of Clanranald (1935);

Second Hymn to Lenin and Other Poems (1935);

Charles Doughty and the Need for Modern Poetry (1936);

Scottish Eccentrics (1936);

Direadh (1938);

Scotland and the Question of a Popular Front against Fascism and War (1938);

The Islands of Scotland: Hebrides, Orkney and Shetlands (1939);

Speaking for Scotland (1939);

ed., The Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry (1940);

Cornish Heroic Song for Valda Trevlyn (1943);

Lucky Poet (1943);

R. C. Saunders, ed., Selected Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid (1944);

Poems of the East-West Synthesis (1946);

Speaking for Scotland:

Selected Poems of Hugh MacDiannid (1946);

A Kist of Whistles (1947);

ed., William Soutar: Collected Poems (1948);

ed., Robert Burns: Poems (1949);

Cunninghame Graham: a Centenary Study (1952);

as Arthur Leslie: The Politics and Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid (1952);

ed., Selections from the Poems of William Dunbar (1952);

O. Brown, ed., Selected Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid (1954);

Francis George Scott: an Essay on the Occasion of his Seventy-fifth Birthday (1955);

In Memoram James Joyce (1955);

ed., Selected Poems of William Dunbar (1955);

Stony Limits and Scots Unbound and Other Poems (1956);

The Battle Continues (1957);

Three Hymns to Lenin (1957);

Burns Today and Tomorrow (1959);

David Hume: Scotland's Greatest Son (1961);

The Kind of Poetry I Want (1961);

The Blaward and the Skelly (1962);

Bracken Hills in Autumn (1962);

Collected Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid (1962, rev. 1967):

The Man of (almost) Independent Mind (1962);

Poetry Like the Hawthorn (1962);

ed., Robert Burns: Love Songs (1962);

When the Rat Race is Over (1962);

The Ugly Birds Without Wings (1962);

An Apprentice Angel (1963);

Harry Martinson: Aniara, a Review of Man in Time and Space (1963);

Sydney Goodsir Smith (1963);

The Ministry of Water: Two Poems (1964);

Six Vituperative Verses (1964);

Two Poems (1964);

The Burning Passion (1965);

Poet and Play and Other Poems (1965);

The Fire of the Spirit: Two Poems (1965);

The Company I've Kept (1966);

Whuchulls (1966);

On a Raised Beach (1967);

The Eemis Stane (1967);

A Lap of Honour (1967);

An Afternoon with Hugh MacDiarmid (1968);

with Owen Dudley Edwards, Gwynfor Evans and Joan Rhys: Celtic Nationalism (1968);

J. K. Annand, ed., Early Lyrics by Hugh MacDiarmid (1968);

The Uncanny Scot (1968);

A Clyack-Sheaf (1969);

D. Glen, ed., Selected Essays of Hugh MacDiarmid (1969);

The MacDiarmids: a Conversation (1970);

More Collected Poems (1970);

D. Craig and J. Manson, eds., Selected Poems (1970);

M. Grieve and A. Scott, eds., The Hugh MacDiarmid Anthology (1972);

A Political Speech (1972);

Song of the Seraphim (1973);

Direadh I,II and III (1974);

with Campbell Maclean and Anthony Ross: John Knox (1976);

Complete Poems, 2 vols. (1978).

Lucky Poet: A Self-Study in Literature and Political Ideas, being the Autobiography of Hugh MacDiarmid, Methuen, London, 1943,

Recent Editions
The Hugh MacDiarmid Anthology: Poems in Scots and English, edited by Michael Grieve and Alexander Scott. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul [1972].
Selected Poems Hugh MacDiarmid Edited by Alan Riach Carcanet 2002
Annals of the Five Senses Hugh MacDiarmid Edited by Alan Riach Carcanet 1999

Complete Poems Vol I (and II) Hugh MacDiarmid Edited by Alan Riach Carcanet 1993

Secondary
The Letters of Hugh MacDiarmid, Hamish Hamilton,
London, 1984

Hugh MacDiarmid; a critical survey. Duncan Glen, New York, Barnes & Noble 1972

MacDiarmid: A Critical Biography, Alan Bold John Murray, London, 1988,

Selected Essays of Hugh MacDiarmid, edited by Duncan Glen, Jonathan Cape, London

Nancy Gish (ed), Hugh MacDiarmid: Man and Poet

MacDiarmid: An Illustrated Biography of Christopher Murray Grieve (Hugh MacDiarmid), by Gordon Wright. Edinburgh: Gordon Wright Publishing [1977].

The Age of MacDiarmid: Essays on Hugh MacDiarmid and His Influence on Contemporary Scotland. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing [1980].

Akros (Preston, Lancashire). 12 (August 1977).

Other Media - documentaries

HUGH MacDIARMID: NO FELLOW TRAVELLERS d. Oscar Marzaroli 1972 col sound Made to commemorate the 80th birthday of the late Hugh MacDiarmid. . (30 mins) REF: 2688

MACDIARMID d. Douglas Gray 1969 col sound (30 mins) REF 1823

Both the above available from Scottish Screen Archive, 11 Beaumont Gdns, Glasgow G12 9JN

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