{"product_id":"macdiarmid-hugh-a-drunk-man-looks-at-the-thistle-1","title":"MACDIARMID, Hugh. A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eThe Driving Force of the Scottish Renaissance\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMACDIARMID, Hugh.\u003c\/strong\u003e A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle. \u003ci\u003eEdinburgh and London: William Blackwood \u0026amp; Sons Limited.\u003c\/i\u003e 1926.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s dark blue boards, gilt vignette to upper board, spine and upper board lettered in gilt, in the publisher’s pale blue printed dust-jacket; pp. [viii], 108; jacket some-what faded with spine somewhat sunned and small loss to head of spine, corners and spine ends of boards lightly worn; some offsetting to endpapers, sporadic light spotting, p. 3 somewhat browned; a very good copy; half-title inscribed ‘Hugh MacDiarmid | (C. M. Grieve) | Montrose. | March | 1946’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, signed by the poet in his own name and his pen name, the culmina-tion of MacDiarmid’s use of ‘synthetic Scots’.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMacDiarmid (born Christopher Murray Grieve, 1892–1978) ‘almost single-handedly forged a Scottish Renaissance movement [...] MacDiarmid chose to write in Scots rather than Gaelic, but saw that it was necessary to improve the capabilities of the language by reviving old Scots words and borrowing freely from Gaelic and other sources. Thus he created a synthetic Scots, later sometimes known as “Lallans”’ (National Library of Scotland, \u003ci\u003eonline\u003c\/i\u003e). This ‘synthetic Scots’ is exemplified here, this edition providing a twelve-page glossary of Scots terminology used in the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis copy was signed in Montrose in 1946; MacDiarmid had moved to the coastal town in 1919, where he worked for a time as editor and reporter for the \u003ci\u003eMontrose Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and it was there that he wrote the present work, as well as his first book, \u003ci\u003eAnnals of the Five Senses\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci\u003eSangschaw\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePenny Wheep\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2124860\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sotherans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57400452743545,"sku":"2124860","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2124860.jpg?v=1780915225","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/macdiarmid-hugh-a-drunk-man-looks-at-the-thistle-1","provider":"Sotherans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}