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Literary Criticism General

Hugh MacDiarmid

The Poetry of Self

by (author) John Baglow

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Aug 1987
Category
General, Poetry
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773505711
    Publish Date
    Aug 1987
    List Price
    $125.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773561205
    Publish Date
    Aug 1987
    List Price
    $110.00

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Description

Baglow shows that this search for justification was a focus for MacDiarmid almost from the start, but that it was only with his development of "synthetic Scots" that he begin to grapple with it directly. While at first the idea of a Scottish essence seemed to promise the spiritual foundation MacDiarmid was seeking, as his poetry developed this idea became less important and he came to see poetry as an unrealizable ideal. This reading of MacDiarmid's poetry, relating it to the modernist movement, will be of value to readers interested in twentieth-century literature.

About the author

John Baglow is a writer and researcher living in Ottawa and the author of two previous volumes of poetry.

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