TY - GEN T1 - Hugh MacDiarmid's poetry and politics of place : imagining a Scottish republic A1 - Lyall, Scott LA - English PP - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press YR - 2006 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn173358290 AB - Gives unique focus to the politics of one of modern Scotland's major cultural figures. 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 Key Features. The first full length study to focus on MacDiarmid's politics Reveals, for the first time outside of government files from the National Archives, that MacDiarmid was watched by the Security Services from 1931 to 1943 Draws uniquely on Carcanet's multi-volume MacDiarmid 2000 series The first critical book to use the 'Red Scotland' typescript in the National Library of Scotland and have access to the recently rediscovered poems collected as The Revolutionary Art of the Future (2003) OP - 200 CN - PR6013.R735 Z766 2006eb SN - 9780748630059 SN - 0748630058 SN - 1280953217 SN - 9781280953217 SN - 9780748652167 SN - 0748652167 SN - 9786610953219 SN - 661095321X SN - 0748623345 SN - 9780748623341 KW - MacDiarmid, Hugh, : 1892-1978 : Criticism and interpretation. KW - MacDiarmid, Hugh, : 1892-1978 : Political and social views. KW - MacDiarmid, Hugh, : 1892-1978 KW - MacDiarmid, Hugh : 1892-1978 KW - Politics in literature. KW - Scotland : In literature. KW - Écosse : Dans la littérature. KW - POETRY : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. KW - POETRY : General. KW - Literature KW - Political and social views KW - Politics in literature KW - Scotland KW - Schottland : Motiv KW - Politik : Motiv KW - Electronic books. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -