This book explores the principal thematic and aesthetic preoccupations in MacDiarmid’s work, relating his poetry to key national and international concerns in modern culture and politics.

Drawing on the literary and vernacular traditions of Scottish culture, Hugh MacDiarmid’s creates modern literature that is both nationalistic and international in its range. This selection of his poetry explores…

A complete, annotated edition of MacDiarmid and MacLean’s letters and a major exploration of their long friendship and literary association.