Hugh MacDiarmid : Cornish Heroic Song (Signed by Hugh's Wife Valda)

Cornish Heroic Song for Valda Trevlyn, and Once in a Cornish Garden

By Hugh MacDiarmid

With a moving inscription to the front endpaper by Christopher's second wife Valda . . "For Rosalie + Derrick from Valda, and Christopher if he were here. Xamas 1978"

Published by Lodenek Press, Cornwall, 1977. First Edition. Hardback with printed laminated boards as published. With 22 pages and illustrations by Janet Fennell.

CONDITION
A good first edition. The boards and spine are good. Endpapers good. All contents present and pages good thrughout. Overall a good first edition.

Christopher Murray Grieve (11 August 1892 – 9 September 1978), best known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid (/məkˈdɜːrmɪd/; Scots: [hju mək'djɑr.mɪd]), was a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure. He is considered one of the principal forces behind the Scottish Renaissance and has had a lasting impact on Scottish culture and politics. He was a founding member of the National Party of Scotland in 1928 but left in 1933 due to his Marxist–Leninist views. He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain the following year only to be expelled in 1938 for his nationalist sympathies. He would subsequently stand as a parliamentary candidate for both the Scottish National Party (1945) and Communist Party of Great Britain (1964).

(Platform: Scottish poetry)