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PUBLISHER: Carcanet Press Ltd
FORMAT: Hardback
ISBN: 9781857540635
RRP: £25.00
PAGES: 480
PUBLICATION DATE:
August 25, 1994
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Lucky Poet
First published in 1943, this book had a minatory subtitle: A Self-Study in Literature and Political Ideas, being the Autobiography of Hugh MacDiarmid. It has more in common with Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria than with conventional memoirs.
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