Selected Essays of Hugh MacDiarmidThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969. |
Contents
A RussoScottish Parallelism 1923 | 11 |
The Politics and Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid 1952 | 19 |
Paul Valéry 1927 | 49 |
Charles Doughty and the Need for Heroic Poetry | 75 |
John Singer 1942 | 86 |
William Soutar 1944 | 92 |
The Next Step 1950 | 105 |
II | 111 |
Encouraging the Creative Arts 1953 | 162 |
Towards a Celtic Front 1953 | 171 |
His Influence 1959 | 177 |
To a Young Poet 1959 | 183 |
Influences and Influence 1961 | 197 |
Contemporary Scottish Literature and the National | 205 |
The Scottish Renaissance Movement After Forty Years | 216 |
The Upsurge of Scottish Nationalism 1967 | 228 |
The Significance of Cunninghame Graham 1952 | 121 |
Direct Poetry and the Scottish | 129 |
14 | 150 |
REFERENCE NOTES | 249 |
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