'Lucky Poet' and the bounds of possibility : autobiography and referentiality in Hugh MacDiarmid's 'Poetic World'

This thesis examines the use of collage as a form of autobiography in Hugh MacDiarmid’s Lucky Poet (1943). It traces the development of the use of autobiographical detail and the use of collage in MacDiarmid’s work from To Circumjack Cencrastus (1930) to Lucky Poet. It aims to show that though there...

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Main Author: Matthews, Kirsten Alexandra
Published: University of Glasgow 2009
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.513347