Hugh MacDiarmid  

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Hugh MacDiarmid is the pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve (11 August 1892, Langholm – 9 September 1978, Edinburgh), a significant Scottish poet of the 20th century. He was instrumental in creating a Scottish version of modernism and was a leading light in the Scottish Renaissance of the 20th century. Unusually for a first generation modernist, he was a communist; unusually for a communist, however, he was a committed Scottish nationalist. He wrote both in English and in literary Scots (often referred to as Lallans).

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• Annals of the Five Senses (1923)
• Sangschaw (1925)
• Penny Wheep (1926)
• A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926)
• The Lucky Bag (1927)
• To Circumjack Cencrastus (1930)
• First Hymn to Lenin and Other Poems (1931)
• Second Hymn to Lenin (1932)
• Scots Unbound and Other Poems (1933)
• Scottish Scene (1934) (collaboration with Lewis Grassic Gibbon)
• Stony Limits and Other Poems (1934)
• The Birlinn of Clanranald (1936)
• Second Hymn to Lenin and Other Poems (1937)
• Scottish Eccentrics (1938)
• The Islands of Scotland (1939)
• The Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry (1940)
• Lucky Poet (1943)
• Speaking for Scotland (1946)
• Poems of the East-West Synthesis (1946)
• A Kist of Whistles (1947)
• In Memoriam James Joyce (1955)
• Three Hymns to Lenin (1957)
• The Battle Continues (1958)
• The Kind of Poetry I Want (1961)
• Collected Poems (1962)
• Poems to Paintings by William Johnstone 1933 (1963)
• The Company I've Kept (1966)
• A Lap of Honour (1967)
• Early Lyrics (1968)
• A Clyack-Sheaf (1969)
• More Collected Poems (1970)
• Selected Poems (1971)
• The Hugh MacDiarmid Anthology (1972)
• Dìreadh (1974)
• The Complete Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid Volume 1 & 2 (1978)