Annals of the Five Senses and Other Stories, Sketches and Plays

by Hugh MacDiarmid

Annals of the Five Senses (1923) was the first book to be published by C.M.Grieve, the man who became known as Hugh MacDiarmid. It is a collection of intense psychological studies which put us in mind of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground. Written in the immediate aftermath of World War I, these 'studies' are acts of intellectual survival and promise, some based obliquely on his own life, others daringly prophetic. Male and female viewpoints are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185754272X
• ISBN13: 9781857542721
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 320 Pages