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Glasgow ou l’Écosse urbaine dans les poèmes de Hugh MacDiarmid
2012
Hugh MacDiarmid is sometimes still thought a parochial poet, mostly interested in the depiction of rural Scotland. However, in the 1930s, he wrote several poems about the city of Glasgow but his work on urban predicaments has been largely forgotten. In his Glasgow sequence, MacDiarmid, along with many other writers in the 30s, redefines Scotland as an urban nation. Post-industrial Glasgow urges the whole country to ‘re-write’ itself and the canonical representation of rural Scotland to fade away. Scotland is mercilessly deconstructed in Glasgow 1938: Glasgow is no longer ‘a dear green place’, Scotland no longer a land of peasants but urban hell where filthy disease and dirty capitalism spre…
Problematics of Bonds in Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry
2012
Hugh MacDiarmid is considered the most important Scottish poet of the 20th century. He is mostly celebrated for the Scots lyrics he wrote in the 1920s and his long poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, published in 1926. Because of their fragmentation, the poems of the Thirties, most of which were part of the unpublished project Mature Art, and In Memoriam James Joyce (1955), have not attracted the same critical attention. However, they represent the culmination of a very complex stylistic crisis that this study offers to analyse thanks to the question of bonds, especially problematic bonds. The poetry portrays humanity torn by social division, treason and death, but it deals with loss too…
Hugh MacDiarmid: l'idéal du poète tisserand
2013
International audience; Selon le poète écossais Hugh MacDiarmid, l’artiste et homme politique idéal est un tisserand. Un poème se doit d’aspirer à la texture de la robe sans coutures du Christ. Pendant toute sa carrière, MacDiarmid a placé le lien entre texte et tissu au coeur de son œuvre. Il est ainsi nécessaire de déterminer l’étendue et l’impact de ses théories sur son œuvre poétique. Comment et pourquoi le poète peut-il être tisserand ? Le poème peut-il imiter le tissu ? Et qui plus est un tissu sans coutures ? Grâce à l’éclairage de certains écrits de MacDiarmid et à travers l’analyse de poèmes tels que « The Seamless Garment », « In the Slums of Glasgow », A Drunk Man Looks at the Th…
‘Scottish Eccentrics’: Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Isles
2017
International audience; Hugh MacDiarmid is probably the poet who did the most to defend Scotland’s difference in the 20th century. Born in the Borders, he was acutely aware of the need to distinguish Scottish culture, language and tradition from her southern neighbour’s. Even if MacDiarmid is well known for his use of Scots in the 1920s, his English prose and poetic works in the 1930s were also aimed at asserting the distinctiveness of Scotland vis-à-vis England, especially when the poet chose the Scottish Isles as a subject-matter. Analysing the book-length essay The Islands of Scotland (1939) and the island poems written in the Thirties, this paper will examine the paradoxical strategies …
In Memoriam James Joyce de Hugh MacDiarmid : indescriptible poème ?
2011
International audience; La description et la compréhension du poème In Memoriam James Joyce, de Hugh MacDiarmid, ont, depuis sa parution en 1955, posé bon nombre de problèmes aux critiques de son œuvre. Leurs descriptions, en particulier celles des connections entre les parties et de la cohérence de ce poème de 250 pages, sont symptomatiques d’une rencontre et d’une extrême tension entre analyse critique, description et subjectivité. Dans ce flou méthodologique, apparaissent dans tous les textes critiques trois procédés principaux : l’adjectivisation, la nominalisation et le recours à la métaphore. Plongeant la description critique dans le royaume de la subjectivité et bien souvent de la mo…
Hugh MacDiarmid’s Typescript ‘Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Landscape, by Valda Trevlyn’ : Landscape as Sign
2013
International audience; In a 1911 letter, the young Hugh MacDiarmid told his professor, George Ogilvie, of his love of mountaineering: “I am constantly crossing mountains, by unutterably rocky tracks”, foretelling his life-long fascination for the Scottish landscape. MacDiarmid’s nationalist use of the Scottish scenery has already been much commented upon. However, we would like to introduce an unpublished typescript entitled “Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Landscape, by Valda Trevlyn” . The text was undoubtedly written by MacDiarmid himself, not by his wife, Valda, in 1939. Projected as “a study of the descriptive elements” of his “vision of Scotland”, this chaotic prose work mostly cons…
Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetics of Commitment: the Modern Stigmata of Bereavement
2016
In the 1930s, the lingering absence of God and of a stable reality engulfed the work of the poet Hugh MacDiarmid, leader of the Scottish Renaissance Movement. To counter this void, like many others at the time, MacDiarmid found refuge in communism and nationalism and started to write political and idealist poetry. In his poems, his political idealism comes into being in the association of reality and ideal, symbolised first by Jean and Sophia, the characters of A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926), and duplicated later in the fantasised image of Lenin, perfect blending of idea and action. Rejecting Sartre’s denial of the political effect poetry can have, the violence of MacDiarmid’s work…
Hugh MacDiarmid : la renaissance au risque de l’obscurité
2012
International audience; Avec ses références obscures et son lexique ultraspécialisé, la poésie de Hugh MacDiarmid s’inscrit dans les expérimentations linguistiques du modernisme. Malgré une certaine réticence à choisir la voie de l’obscurité poétique au nom de la propagation de ses idées, la communicabilité n’est pas synonyme de transparence pour MacDiarmid. L’opacité de sens n’empêche pas le contact avec le lecteur. A l’image du poème « The Watergaw », dans lequel l’arc en ciel transperce le regard insaisissable du père, l’incompréhensible poésie révèle une clarté insoupçonnée. Cette dualité moderniste est exacerbée chez MacDiarmid : la schizophrénie linguistique écossaise oblige le poète …