Selected Essays of Hugh MacDiarmid

Selected Essays of Hugh MacDiarmid, edited and introduced by Duncan Glen, brings together a wide-ranging selection of prose by the poet otherwise known as Christopher Murray Grieve, a towering figure of twentieth-century Scottish letters. While MacDiarmid is now recognized as one of the century’s great poets, his prolific prose—scattered across journals, newspapers, pamphlets, and polemical tracts—remains less accessible. Glen’s introduction situates MacDiarmid’s output within the contexts ...