Hugh MacDiarmid
Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978) was a British linguist, poet and politician.
Also recorded as Grieve, Christopher Murray,.
Overview
Recorded at birth as Christopher Murray Grieve.
Also worked under the name Hugh MacDiarmid.
Born at Langholm in 1892, died at Edinburgh in 1978.
In detail
Hugh MacDiarmid studied at Edinburgh College of Art and Langholm Academy. the recorded working language is English and Scots.
The authority associates the name with Scottish Renaissance.
Places of work recorded in the authority are Ebbw Vale, Clydebank and Montrose.
Works named in the authority record are A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle.
Sources
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- 1.
“Hugh MacDiarmid”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q981981: Hugh MacDiarmid
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![Hugh MacDiarmid, sculpted by William Lamb in Montrose (Flipped version of [File:Lamb-Hugh MacDiarmid.jpg])](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Lamb-Hugh_MacDiarmid_%28flipped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
Hugh MacDiarmid, sculpted by William Lamb in Montrose (Flipped version of [File:Lamb-Hugh MacDiarmid.jpg])
Neil Werninck · Source JRW Stansfeld per File:Lamb-Hugh MacDiarmid.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0
The picture record
Short verse by Hugh MacDiarmid. For we ha'e faith, in Scotland's hidden poo'ers, The present's theirs, but a' the past and future's oors
Drnoble · Own work · CC BY-SA 4.0
The picture recordElsewhere in Books
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