What happened to MacDiarmid
David Norbrook, 23 October 1986
Hugh MacDiarmid: The Man and his Work
by Nancy Gish.
Macmillan, 235 pp., £25, June 1984,0 333 29473 4 Show More
by Nancy Gish.
Macmillan, 235 pp., £25, June 1984,
“... of defeat are to be read too literally: his poetic task is both ‘impossible and imperative’. Nancy Gish’s book is the most critically acute of a number of recent studies, and she very effectively dispatches the notion that the later poetry reveals an inexorable decline.* She concludes with praise of the Direadh poems as marking the highest ... ”