A Drunk Man Looks At The Thistle Author:Hugh MacDiarmid It was Hugh MacDiarmid - born Christopher Murray Grieve - who in the middle 1920s inspired a literary Renaissance in Scotland. It was during this time that he wrote A Drunk Man Looks at The Thistle, called by David Daiches "the greatest long poem ... in Scottish literature and one of the greatest in any literature." — Of the generation of Pound a... more »nd Eliot, MacDiarmid shines forth in this poem as their equal in giving poetic form to modern man's philosophical ruminiations over the meanings of birth, life, death and infinity.
This edition makes MacDiarmid's masterwork available to a general audience for the first time. It is designed for the reader who has no Scots, with English marginal gloss, explanatory notes, critical commentary and background information by John C. Weston.« less