The Little White Rose
(To John Gawsworth)
Hugh MacDiarmid, “The Little White Rose” from Selected Poetry. Copyright © 1992 by Alan Riach and Michael Grieve. Reprinted with the permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.
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Poet Hugh MacDiarmid 1892–1978
POET’S REGION Scotland
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
Poetic Terms Epigram, Rhymed Stanza
Biography
C. M. Grieve, best known under his pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid, is credited with effecting a Scottish literary revolution which restored an indigenous Scots literature and has been acknowledged as the greatest poet that his country has produced since Robert Burns. As a writer, political theorist, revolutionary, prophet, and multifaceted personality, he was a man to be reckoned with, even by those who did not agree that he was one . . .
