Hugh MacDiarmid

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Scottish poet modernist poet person poet

Hugh MacDiarmid was a pioneering 20th-century Scottish poet and key figure in the Scottish literary renaissance, known for revitalizing Scots language poetry and blending modernist techniques with national themes.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Scottish poet → modernist poet → person → poet →
awardReceived	Cholmondeley Award →
birthName	Christopher Murray Grieve →
conflict	World War I →
countryOfCitizenship	Scotland → United Kingdom →
dateOfBirth	1892-08-11 →
dateOfDeath	1978-09-09 →
educatedAt	Langholm Academy →
genre	poetry → political poetry →
hasLiteraryForm	English-language poetry → Scots-language poetry →
influenced	Scottish nationalist literature → Scottish poetry →
influencedBy	Scottish ballad tradition → modernist poetry →
knownFor	blending modernist techniques with Scottish national themes → leading figure in the Scottish literary renaissance → revitalizing Scots-language poetry →
languageOfWorkOrName	English → Scots →
memberOf	Communist Party of Great Britain → National Party of Scotland → Scottish National Party →
movement	Scottish Renaissance → Scottish literary renaissance → modernism →
notableWork	A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle → Penny Wheep → Sangschaw → To Circumjack Cencrastus →
occupation	essayist → journalist → poet →
placeOfBirth	Langholm, Dumfriesshire, Scotland →
placeOfDeath	Edinburgh, Scotland →
politicalAlignment	Scottish nationalism → communism →
pseudonym	Hugh MacDiarmid →
residence	Edinburgh, Scotland → Langholm, Scotland → Whalsay, Shetland →
servedIn	Royal Army Medical Corps →
spouse	Valda Trevlyn Grieve →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Scots →	hasNotableAuthor
McDiarmid ("MacDiarmid") →	hasSpellingVariant
Hugh MacDiarmid →	pseudonym