Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry and Politics of Place: Imagining a Scottish Republic

Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry and Politics of Place: Imagining a Scottish Republic
ISBN-10
0748630058
ISBN-13
9780748630059
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
216
Language
English
Published
2006-08-28
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Author
Scott Lyall

Description

By examining at length for the first time those places in Scotland that inspired MacDiarmid to produce his best poetry, Scott Lyall shows how the poet's politics evolved from his interaction with the nation, exploring how MacDiarmid discovered a hidden tradition of radical Scottish Republicanism through which he sought to imagine a new Scottish future. Adapting postcolonial theory, this book allows readers a fuller understanding not only of MacDiarmid's poetry and politics, but also of international modernism, and the social history of Scottish modernism.

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