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Hugh MacDiarmid
1892 - 1978
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Hugh MacDiarmid – A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
The most important poem from the father of the Scottish literary renaissance. ‘A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle,’ written in a purely invented, synthetic Scots language is a nationalist and modernist masterpiece. Widely considered to be one of the most important works ever written in or about Scotland.

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