Hugh MacDiarmid
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Scottish poet, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve (1892–1978)
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It sits within the topics 1892 births, 1978 deaths and 20th-century British male journalists.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1892
- Died
- 1978
- Works
- 182
Top works
- Albyn, or, Scotland and the future
- Five bits of Miller
- Stony limits and other poems
- Three hymns to Lenin
- Poems
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 147
- Total plays
- 544
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions
· 2016 · cited 15,445x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,995x
- The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans
· 2020 · cited 9,176x
- Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans
· 2016 · cited 9,059x
- Mutations of the BRAF gene in human cancer
· 2002 · cited 8,635x
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Quotes
- “I amna fou' sae muckle as tired — deid dune. It's gey and hard wark coupin' gless for glessWi' Cruivie and Gilsanquhar and the like,And I'm no' juist as bauld as aince I wes.”
- “I'll ha'e nae hauf-way hoose, but aye be whaurExtremes meet — it's the only way I kenTo dodge the curst conceit o' bein' richtThat damns the vast majority o' men.”
- “To meddle wi the thistle and to pluck The figs frae't is my metier, I think.”
- “The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.”
- “If there's a sword-like sangThat can cut Scotland clearO a' the warld besideRax me the hilt o't here.For there's nae jewal tillFrae the rest o earth it's free,Wi the starry separatenessI'd fain to Scotland gie.”
- “The rose of all the world is not for me.I want for my partOnly the little white rose of ScotlandThat smells sharp and sweet — and breaks the heart.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Wikidata facts
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- Lamb-Hugh MacDiarmid (flipped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1892-08-11
- date of death
- 1978-09-09
- birth name
- Christopher Murray Grieve
- pseudonym
- Hugh MacDiarmid
- Commons category
- Hugh MacDiarmid
- P12749
- God
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Categories
1892 births1978 deaths20th-century British male journalists20th-century pseudonymous writers20th-century Scottish educators20th-century Scottish essayists20th-century Scottish journalists20th-century Scottish male writers20th-century Scottish memoirists20th-century Scottish poets20th-century Scottish translatorsAlumni of the Edinburgh College of ArtBritish Army personnel of World War IBritish communist poetsBritish modernist poetsCommunist Party of Great Britain membersHistorical linguistsLallans poetsLinguists from ScotlandMilitary personnel from Dumfries and GallowayPeople associated with ShetlandPeople from LangholmPeople from ThakehamRoyal Army Medical Corps soldiers