Hugh MacDiarmid

Poet

Hugh MacDiarmid was born in Langholm, Scotland, United Kingdom on August 11th, 1892 and is the Poet. At the age of 86, Hugh MacDiarmid biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
August 11, 1892
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
Langholm, Scotland, United Kingdom
Death Date
Sep 9, 1978 (age 86)
Zodiac Sign
Leo
Profession
Biographer, Journalist, Linguist, Literary Critic, Poet, Politician, Translator, Writer
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Hugh MacDiarmid Life

Hugh MacDiarmid (British) was a Scottish writer, essayist, and political figure named Christopher Murray Grieve (11 August 1892 – September 1978).

Grieve wrote Annals of the Five Senses in English, his earliest work, as well as Annals of the Five Sens.

However, he is best known for his book "synthetic Scots," a literary interpretation of Scots terms that he himself invented.

MacDiarmid made greater use of English, some as a "synthetic English" that was supplemented by scientific and technical vocabularies from the 1930s to the present. MacDiarmid, the son of a postman, was born in Langholm, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.

He was educated at Langholm Academy before becoming a teacher at Broughton Higher Grade School in Edinburgh for a short time.

He began his writing career as a journalist in Wales, contributing to Labour Party founder Keir Hardie's newspaper The Merthyr Pioneer, before joining the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War.

He worked in Salonica, Greece, and France before he discovered cerebral malaria and then returned to Scotland in 1918.

MacDiarmid's time in the army was pivotal in his political and artistic growth. He continued to work as a journalist after the war in Montrose, where he served as both editor and reporter of the Montrose Review, as well as a member of the county council and justice of the peace.

Annals of the Five Sens in 1923 was his first book, followed by Sangschaw in 1925, and Penny Wheep and A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle in 1926.

A Drunk Man and his Second wife, Valda Trevlyn, and Michael MacDiarmid were able to write essays and poems on despite being cut off from mainland cultural developments for the majority of the 1930s.

MacDiarmid died in 1978 at the age of 86, at his cottage Brownsbank near Biggar, who was often compared to his contemporaries.

MacDiarmid, a founding member of the National Party of Scotland (forerunner of the modern Scottish National Party) and a candidate for the Scottish National Party in 1945 and 1950, and for the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1964, a controversial figure who has left a lasting impression on Scottish culture and politics.

"Eccentric and often maddening genius he is," Morgan said of him, but MacDiarmid has created several works that, in the only way possible, go on haunting the mind and memory, as well as casting Coleridgean seeds of knowledge and wonder."

Personal life

By his first wife Peggy Skinner, he had a daughter, Christine, and Walter's son, Walter. Michael Trevlyn, son of James Michael Trevlyn (1906-1989), was a conscient objector to the Scottish National Service and became vice chair of the Scottish National Party.

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STEPHEN DAISLEY:  Scotland saw Salmond's vision - big, romantic and brimming with ideas - and still said 'No'. He could make his people dream, but he couldn't stop them waking up

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 13, 2024
Alex Salmond was a big man with a big vision for a country that, to him, was the biggest the world had to offer. Addressing Holyrood for the first time after his thundering victory in 2011, he said: 'Scotland is not small. It is not small in imagination, and it is not short on ambition. It is infinite in its diversity, and it is alive with possibility.' That speech, which I have always considered his finest, reflected the generous scope of his worldview. It quoted Donald Dewar and Michael Foot, Hugh MacDiarmid and Norman MacCaig, The Corries and Fletcher of Saltoun, and its lyrical flourish that 'this land is their land, from the sparkling sands of the islands to the glittering granite of our cities' perhaps owes some royalties to the estate of Woody Guthrie.