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Hugh MacDiarmid was the pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve (Crìsdean Mac a' Ghreidhir) (August 11, 1892, Langholm - September 9, 1978, Edinburgh ), a significant Scottish poet of the 20th century. He was instrumental in creating a truly Scottish version of modernism and was a leading light in the Scottish Renaissance of the 20th century. Unusually for a first generation modernist, he was a communist. Unusually for a communist, he was a committed Scottish nationalist. He wrote both in English and in literary Scots (often referred to as Lallans).
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