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A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle

Literature & Fiction

Hugh MacDiarmid

History & Criticism

University of Massachusetts Pr

Aesthetics in Scotland

Mainstream Publishing

Kenneth Buthlay's edition of A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle is widely considered to be the best edition of all and provides extensive commentary and notes, taking the reader through MacDiarmid's complex and often opaque use of language. The drunk man lies on a moonlit hillside looking at a thistle, jaggy and beautiful, which epitomises Scotland's divided self. The man reflects on the fate of the nation, the human condition in general and his own personal fears.

Genre Fiction

Birlinn

First published in 1943, this book had a minatory subtitle: "A Self-Study in Literature and Political Ideas, being the Autobiography of Hugh MacDiarmid". It has more in common with Coleridge's "Biographia Literaria" than with conventional memoirs.

Lucky Poet: The Autobiography of Hugh MacDiarmid (Lives and Letters: MacDiarmid 2000)

Carcanet Press Ltd.

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