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Hugh MacDiarmid: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Christopher Murray Grieve
Born August 11, 1892 • Scotland
Died September 9, 1978 (aged 86) • Edinburgh • Scotland
Founder “Scottish Chapbook”
Notable Works “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle” • “In Memoriam James Joyce”

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Allan Cunningham, detail of a portrait by Henry Room; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Allan Cunningham
Scottish poet
Engraved portrait of Robert Burns, shown from the waist up wearing a dark jacket and cravat, facing slightly to the left.
Robert Burns
Scottish poet
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Scottish poet Allan Ramsay
Allan Ramsay
Scottish poet
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Novelist Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
British writer
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Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Scottish author
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
British author
Quiller-Couch, 1943
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
British writer
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Anne Ridler
British writer
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Gavin Ewart
British poet
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Ronald Duncan
British author
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William Soutar
British poet
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Patrick Anderson
Canadian poet
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Sir Edward Howard Marsh
British scholar
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Edwin Muir
Scottish writer
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Alexander Hume
Scottish poet
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
British statesman and author
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Alasdair Gray
Scottish novelist, playwright, and artist

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