MacDiarmid’s Sticks
C.H. Sisson, 5 April 1984
Whaur Extremes Meet: The Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid 1920-1934
by Catherine Kerrigan.
James Thin, 245 pp., £12.50, June 1983,0 901824 69 0 Show More
by Catherine Kerrigan.
James Thin, 245 pp., £12.50, June 1983,
Elemental Things: The Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid
by Harvey Oxenhorn.
Edinburgh, 215 pp., £15, March 1984,0 85224 475 4 Show More
by Harvey Oxenhorn.
Edinburgh, 215 pp., £15, March 1984,
Aesthetics in Scotland
by Hugh MacDiarmid and Alan Bold.
Mainstream, 100 pp., £6.95, February 1984,0 906391 60 1 Show More
by Hugh MacDiarmid and Alan Bold.
Mainstream, 100 pp., £6.95, February 1984,
Annals of the Five Senses
by Hugh MacDiarmid and Alan Bold.
Polygon, 161 pp., £6.50, July 1983,0 904919 74 9 Show More
by Hugh MacDiarmid and Alan Bold.
Polygon, 161 pp., £6.50, July 1983,
Hugh MacDiarmid: The Terrible Crystal
by Alan Bold.
Routledge, 251 pp., £9.95, August 1983,0 7100 9493 0 Show More
by Alan Bold.
Routledge, 251 pp., £9.95, August 1983,
Hugh MacDiarmid (C.M. Grieve)
by Kenneth Buthlay.
Scottish Academic Press, 143 pp., £3.25, September 1982,0 7073 0307 9 Show More
by Kenneth Buthlay.
Scottish Academic Press, 143 pp., £3.25, September 1982,
The Thistle Rises: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose by Hugh MacDiarmid
edited by Alan Bold.
Hamish Hamilton, 463 pp., £12.95, February 1984,0 241 11171 4 Show More
edited by Alan Bold.
Hamish Hamilton, 463 pp., £12.95, February 1984,
A Scottish Poetry Book
by Alan Bold, Bob Dewar, Iain McIntosh and Rodger McPhail.
Oxford, 128 pp., £4.95, July 1983,0 19 916029 5 Show More
by Alan Bold, Bob Dewar, Iain McIntosh and Rodger McPhail.
Oxford, 128 pp., £4.95, July 1983,
Edinburgh and the Borders in Verse
by Allan Massie.
Secker, 97 pp., £5.95, August 1983,0 436 27348 9 Show More
by Allan Massie.
Secker, 97 pp., £5.95, August 1983,
“... Was Hugh MacDiarmid a great poet? Was he, as John MacQueen asserts in his Foreword to Catherine Kerrigan’s study, one of ‘the three greatest poets to use English in the 20th century’, the other two being Yeats and Eliot? One can understand MacQueen putting the matter that way, but perhaps it is not the most helpful way when the reputations of Eliot and Yeats are shaking down, in the ordinary process of time, following their immense acclaim ... ”
