Selected Poems

, by Grieve, Michael; MacDiarmid, Hugh; Riach, Alan

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ISBN: 9780811212489 | 0811212483
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/17/1993

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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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