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John Manson's collection of letters to MacDiarmid, or to Christopher Grieve, or to Hugh or Chris or Christie or Hughie, is a major work. It is the fruit of a lifetime of dedicated scholarly research, meticulous, self-effacing study in libraries, most deeply in the National Library of Scotland and Edinburgh University Library, and follows his initial co-editorship with David Craig of the first Penguin paperback edition of MacDiarmid's Selected Poems (1970), and his later co-editorship of The Revolutionary Art of the Future: Rediscovered Poems, with Dorian Grieve and Alan Riach (2003). 'He is a fine poet and translator himself, and his small-press publications are to be sought out and read closely. However, this is a monumental achievement: a collection so rich in diversity, covering historical epochs, strata of human character, social engagement, political motivation and accomplishment, that it will take some time before its impact and value really sinks in and embeds itself in modern literary and political culture - especially in Scotland!' - from the Introduction by Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow.
Contents
Acknowledgements. Hugh MacDiarmid: Put it to the Touch - An Introduction to Dear Grieve by Alan Riach. List of Abbreviations. Illustrations. Titles of Books Frequently Cited. Hugh MacDiarmid's Addresses. Note on the Text. The Letters - The 1920s; The 1930s; The 1940s; The 1950s; The 1960s; The 1970s. Letters to Hugh MacDiarmid which have previously appeared in print. Biographical List of Correspondents. Index
