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*** ,1892
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September 9, 1978 (86 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Leo
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Hugh MacDiarmid
Christopher Murray Grieve, better known by the pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid, is a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and politician. He is considered one of the main forces behind the Scottish Renaissance and had a lasting influence on Scottish culture and politics. Grieve's first work, including The Chronicles of the Five Senses, was written in English, but he is best known for using "synthetic Scottish", a literary version of the Scottish language. which he himself developed. Since the early 1930s, MacDiarmid has used more English, sometimes "mixed English" supplemented with scientific and technical vocabulary. The son of a postman, MacDiarmid was born in the border town of Scotland, Langholm, Dumfriesshire. He trained at the Langholm Academy before becoming a teacher briefly at the Broughton Higher Grade School in Edinburgh.
BornChristopher Murray Grieve, 11 August 1892, Langholm, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
DiedSeptember 9, 1978, Edinburgh, Scotland
OccupationPoet
Literary movementScottish Renaissance

About Hugh MacDiarmid

Poet Hugh MacDiarmid was born in Scotland on August 11, 1892. He dies at the age of 86, on September 9, 1978.

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle" is a long poem by a modernist poet linked with the Scottish Renaissance. Annals of the Five Senses, his first book, was released in 1923.

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Hugh MacDiarmid before becoming famous

Hugh MacDiarmid was born in the Zodiac sign Leo (The Lion), and 1892 is also the year of Dragon (龍) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He was a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I.

Achievement of Hugh MacDiarmid

He was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and was instrumental in the formation of the National Party of Scotland.

Hugh MacDiarmid's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

After World War I, he married and worked as a journalist.

Hugh MacDiarmid Collabed with

He was novelist Poet Alan Bold's literary mentor and buddy.

Alan Norman Bold (1943 - 1998) (Poet)
Alan Norman Bold (1943 - 1998)

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