Hugh MacDiarmid
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Scottish poet, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Christopher Murray Grieve , best known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid , 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 and British Communist Party .
