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- ISBN: 9780811212489 | 0811212483
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 9/17/1993
Acknowledgements | |
Introduction | |
Recalling Hugh MacDiarmid | |
from 'Sonnets of the Highland Hills': The Wind-bags (1921) | p. 1 |
Well Hung (1923) | p. 1 |
from Annals of the Five Senses (1923) | |
A Moment in Eternity | p. 2 |
The Fool | p. 7 |
A Last Song | p. 7 |
The Dying Earth (1923) | p. 8 |
from Sangschaw (1925) | |
The Bonnie Broukit Bairn | p. 9 |
The Watergaw | p. 9 |
The Sauchs in the Reuch Heuch Hauch | p. 10 |
Ex vermibus | p. 10 |
Au Clair de la Lune | p. 11 |
Crowdieknowe | p. 14 |
The Eemis Stane | p. 14 |
The Innumerable Christ | p. 15 |
from Penny Wheep (1926) | |
Wheesht, Wheesht | p. 16 |
Focherty | p. 16 |
The Love-sick Lass | p. 17 |
The Dead Liebknecht | p. 17 |
Scunner | p. 18 |
Servant Girl's Bed | p. 18 |
Empty Vessel | p. 19 |
Gairmscoile | p. 19 |
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926) | p. 24 |
from To Circumjack Cencrastus or The Curly Snake (1930) | |
Lourd on My Hert | p. 114 |
from 'Frae Anither Window in Thrums' | p. 114 |
Hokum | p. 121 |
The Weapon | p. 123 |
To hell wi' happiness! | p. 123 |
My love is to the light of lights | p. 124 |
from First Hymn to Lenin and Other Poems (1931) | |
At My Father's Grave | p. 125 |
The Seamless Garment | p. 125 |
Water of Life | p. 128 |
from Second Hymn to Lenin (1932) | |
from 'Second Hymn to Lenin' | p. 134 |
from Scots Unbound and Other Poems (1932) | |
Milk-Wort and Bog-Cotton | p. 135 |
from 'Water Music' (J) | p. 135 |
Cheville | p. 138 |
Dytiscus | p. 138 |
Of John Davidson | p. 139 |
Bracken Hills in Autumn (1932; 1962) | p. 140 |
Conception (1933) | p. 142 |
from Stony Limits and Other Poems (1934; 1956) | |
The Skeleton of the Future | p. 143 |
Stony Limits | p. 143 |
On a Raised Beach | p. 146 |
First Love | p. 156 |
With the Herring Fishers | p. 156 |
from 'The War with England' | p. 157 |
The Little White Rose | p. 158 |
Skald's Death | p. 158 |
Harry Semen | p. 159 |
John Maclean (1879-1923) | p. 161 |
from 'Ode to All Rebels' | p. 162 |
from Second Hymn to Lenin and Other Poems (1935) | |
On the Ocean Floor | p. 165 |
At the Cenotaph | p. 165 |
One of the Principal Causes of War | p. 165 |
O Ease My Spirit | p. 166 |
As Lovers Do | p. 166 |
Light and Shadow | p. 167 |
In the Children's Hospital | p. 167 |
Lo! A Child is Born | p. 168 |
The Covenanters | p. 168 |
Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries | p. 169 |
The Two Parents | p. 169 |
In the Slums of Glasgow | p. 169 |
Glasgow, 1960 (1935) | p. 173 |
The Glass of Pure Water (1937) | p. 174 |
The Glen of Silence (1938) | p. 177 |
from The Islands of Scotland (1939) | |
Perfect | p. 178 |
Island Funeral | p. 178 |
from 'Cornish Heroic Song for Valda Trevlyn' (1939) | p. 186 |
Happy on Heimaey (1939) | p. 188 |
from The Battle Continues (1939; 1957) | p. 190 |
from 'England's Double Knavery' (1939; 1969) | p. 194 |
from Lucky Poet (1943) | |
Poetry and Science | p. 196 |
Scotland | p. 197 |
Scotland Small? | p. 198 |
Bagpipe Music | p. 198 |
Direadh III | p. 199 |
from The Kind of Poetry I Want (1943; 1961) | p. 208 |
from 'Further Passages from The Kind of Poetry I Want' (1943) | p. 218 |
Two Memories (1943) | p. 220 |
from 'Goodbye Twilight' (1945) | p. 221 |
Of My First Love (1946) | p. 223 |
from A Kist of Whistles (1947) | |
The Wreck of the Swan | p. 224 |
The Caledonian Antisyzygy (1948) | p. 230 |
Crystals Like Blood (1949) | p. 231 |
A Vision of Scotland (1949) | p. 232 |
Why (1950) | p. 232 |
My Songs are Kandym in the Waste Land (1950) | p. 233 |
from 'Esplumeoir' (1951) | p. 236 |
from In Memoriam James Joyce (1955) | |
from 'In Memoriam James Joyce' | p. 240 |
from 'The World of Words' | p. 244 |
from 'The Snares of Varuna' | p. 248 |
from 'England is our Enemy' | p. 249 |
from 'Plaited Like the Generations of Men' | p. 254 |
To a Friend and Fellow-Poet (1955) | p. 262 |
To My Friend the late Beatrice Hastings (1956) | p. 263 |
from Collected Poems (1962) | |
Old Wife in High Spirits | p. 267 |
Facing the Chair (1968) | p. 268 |
from A Clyack-Sheaf (1969) | |
Credo | p. 269 |
The Ross-shire Hills | p. 269 |
Appendix 1: Glossary for 'On a Raised Beach' | p. 271 |
Appendix 2: A Note on MacDiarmid's Use of Sources | p. 275 |
Appendix 3: Sources for 'Perfect' | p. 276 |
Index of Titles | p. 277 |
Index of First Lines | p. 281 |
Chronology | p. 285 |
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