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Hugh MacDiarmid, the Scots poet and writer lived in Whalsay from the mid-1930s through 1942, and wrote many poems there, including a number that directly address or reflect the Shetland environment such as " On A Raised Beach ", which was inspired by a visit to West Linga.
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* 1892 – Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet ( d. 1978 )
A bust of Hugh MacDiarmid in South Gyle, Edinburgh.
The leading figure in the movement was Hugh MacDiarmid ( the pseudonym of Christopher Murray Grieve ).
Some writers that emerged after the Second World War followed Hugh MacDiarmid by writing in Scots, including Robert Garioch and Sydney Goodsir Smith.
While modernist poetry in English is often viewed as an American phenomenon, with leading exponents including Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, H. D., and Louis Zukofsky, there were important British modernist poets, including David Jones, Hugh MacDiarmid, Basil Bunting, and W. H. Auden.
* August 11 – Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet ( b. 1892 )
* August 11 – Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet ( d. 1978 )
During the festival, Hugh MacDiarmid denounced him as " cosmopolitan scum.
Aniara has been translated in English as Aniara, A Review of Man in Time and Space by Hugh MacDiarmid and E. Harley Schubert in 1956.
* The Rauchle Tongue: Selected Essays, Journalism and Interviews by Hugh MacDiarmid, with Glen Murray and Alan Riach ( 3 vols ).
The term Lallans was also used during the Scottish Renaissance of the early 20th century to refer to what Hugh MacDiarmid called synthetic Scots, i. e., a synthesis integrating, blending, and combining various forms of the Scots language, both vernacular and archaic.
These included the London-Welsh poet and painter David Jones, whose first book, In Parenthesis, was one of the very few experimental poems to come out of World War I, the Scot Hugh MacDiarmid, Mina Loy and Basil Bunting.
* A memorial to Hugh MacDiarmid is unveiled near his home at Langholm, Scotland.
* Duncan Grant is referenced with Isadora Duncan and Mary Garden in A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle ( 1926 ) by Hugh MacDiarmid ( lines 30-32 ).
One of the founders was Hugh MacDiarmid, a poet who had begun promoting a Scottish literature, while others had Labour Party links.
The celebrated poet, Hugh MacDiarmid was a member, but was expelled on account of his Communist beliefs ( ironically he would later be expelled from the Communist Party of Great Britain for his Scottish Nationalist beliefs ).
The leading figure, Hugh MacDiarmid, attempted to revive the Scots language as a medium for serious literature.
A bust of Hugh MacDiarmid in South Gyle, Edinburgh.
The leading figure in the movement was Hugh MacDiarmid ( the pseudonym of Christopher Murray Grieve ).
Many tried to imitate his style, and " high-brow " subject matter, such as Hugh MacDiarmid and Sydney Goodsir Smith.
In Scotland, the poet Hugh MacDiarmid formed something of a one-man modernist movement.
Hugh MacDiarmid helped found the National Party of Scotland and was also a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
His Scott and Scotland advanced the claim that Scotland can create a national literature only by writing in English, an opinion that placed him in direct opposition to the Lallans movement of Hugh MacDiarmid.
* Cunninghame Graham: a centenary study, Hugh MacDiarmid, with a foreword by R. E.
Hugh and Scots
Significant individual contributions to the war effort by Scots included the invention of radar by Robert Watson-Watt, which was invaluable in the Battle of Britain, as was the leadership at RAF Fighter Command of Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding.
When Dundee went north, he was pursued by a governmental force of about 3, 500, led by General Hugh Mackay of Scourie, a Highlander who had been in Dutch service with the Scots Brigade for many years.
* Great Scots at Electric Scotland-an Article on Hugh Blair's legacy as a Scottish theorist
Mary's history occupied much of his attention, and his last work, A Detection of the Love Letters lately attributed in Hugh Campbell's work to Mary Queen of Scots, is an exposure of an attempt to represent as genuine some fictitious letters said to have passed between Mary and Bothwell.
Through his editorship of the magazine Arkos, he has been a vigorous promoter of Scots literature, becoming a friend and early champion of, among others, Hugh MacDiarmid and Ian Hamilton Finlay.
In 1982, under the auspices of the New York Caledonian Club, New York State Governor Hugh Carey, and New York City Mayor Ed Koch declared July 1, 1982, as Tartan Day, a one-time celebration of the 200th anniversary of the repeal of the Act of Proscription of August 12, 1747, the law forbidding Scots to wear tartan.
The campaign resulted in the capture of William the Lion, the King of Scots, and also helped to compel Hugh du Puiset, the Bishop of Durham, to pledge fealty to Henry II.
Lallans Poets was also used to describe the early 20th century Scottish Renaissance poets who followed Hugh MacDiarmid writing in Synthenic Scots known as Lallans.
The king did suspect Hugh of supporting Henry's heir, Henry the Young King, when the prince rebelled and Hugh was also suspected of aiding the King of Scots, William I during an invasion of Northern England in 1174.
Hugh also concluded truces with the Scots that allowed them free passage through the ecclesiastical lands in return for no damage being done to those lands.
These facts, however, have distracted many critics from his extraordinary technical skill and the responsible scholarship of his handling of the Scots language, in which he surpasses all his contemporaries and even his great predecessor Hugh MacDiarmid ( of whom he became critical ).
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Other notable attendees included consumer protection activist and presidential candidate Ralph Nader ; Landscape Architect Ian McHarg ; Nobel prize-winning Harvard Biochemist, George Wald ; U. S. Senate Minority Leader, Hugh Scott ; and poet, Allen Ginsberg.
Pastoral nevertheless survived as a mood rather than a genre, as can be seen from such works as Matthew Arnold's Thyrsis ( 1867 ), a lament on the death of his fellow poet Arthur Hugh Clough.
* November 13-Arthur Hugh Clough, poet
* January 1-Arthur Hugh Clough, poet ( died 1861 )
Phillips also painted portraits of Walter Scott, Robert Southey, George Anthony Legh Keck ( 1830 ), Thomas Campbell ( poet ), Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Hallam, Mary Somerville, Sir Edward Parry, Sir John Franklin, Dixon Denham, the African traveller, and Hugh Clapperton.
Arthur Hugh Clough ( 1 January 1819 – 13 November 1861 ) was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale.
* The Irish poet Hugh Mac Cuirtin ( or Aodh Buidhe Mac Cuirtin ) is imprisoned in Dublin.
The poet Hugh MacDiarmid, a Communist, was also an early member of the National Party of Scotland.
Langholm is also home of Christopher Murray Grieve ( known as Hugh Macdiarmid ), the Scottish poet, who was a leading light in the Scottish Renaissance of the 20th century.
Gene Fowler, A. D. Winans, Hugh Fox, street poet and activist Jack Hirschman, Paul Foreman, Jim Cohn, John Bennett, and F. A. Nettelbeck are among the many poets who are still actively continuing the Small Press Poets tradition.
Unfortunately for the poet, the poem's appearance coincided with the rise of the Movement with their open hostility to the neo-romantics, and, despite the support of Eliot and Hugh MacDiarmid, the book was neither a critical nor a popular success.
William Dunbar mentions a Sir Hugh of Eglinton in his Lament for the Makaris, citing him as a fellow poet.
He then visited Prince Edward Island's Hugh Macdonald, the province's poet laureate, and conducted workshops and readings.
Hugh Sykes Davies ( 19091984 ) was an English poet, novelist and communist who was one of a small group of 1930s British surrealists.
Many of his friends were also Communists or were suspected of being so ( MP DN Pritt ; film director Joseph Losey ; Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid ; actor Alex McCrindle ).
* Hugh MacDiarmid, the Scottish poet, is alleged to have lived in Longniddry for a short while.
Hugh Callingham Wheeler ( 19 March 1912, Hampstead, London, England-26 July 1987 ) was an English-born playwright, screenwriter, librettist, poet, and translator.
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