S1E3:Hugh MacDiarmid
Great Scots: The Writers Who Shaped a Nation
30 Aug 201451 minTV-PG
Contains Language.
Andrew Marr looks into the life of Scotland's most bothersome poet, Hugh MacDiarmid. MacDiarmid reinvented Scots as a language for serious writing, and at various times called for a Scottish fascism, tried to create an independent Scottish communist utopia, and was under surveillance by MI5 for many years. He would write the most powerful poetry in Scots since the days of Robert Burns.
