1st Edition

MacDiarmid The Terrible Crystal

By Alan Bold Copyright 1983
274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1983, Hugh MacDiarmid: The Terrible Crystal is a detailed introduction to the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid. Hugh MacDiarmid’s poetry shows a persistent search for a consistent intellectual vision that reveals, in all its facets, the source of creativity recognised by the poet as ‘the terrible crystal’. This introduction to his poetry shows that MacDiarmid’s great achievement... Read more
Acknowledgements; Bibliographical Note; Chronology; 1: The Mind Alone; 2: Names for Nameless Things; 3: To prove my Saul is Scots; 4: Frae Battles, Mair than Ballads; 5: This Stone World; 6: Alone with the Alone; Notes; Glossary; Index of Poems; General Index

Biography

Alan Bold