The poet Hugh MacDiarmid (1892 – 1978) was one of the founders of the National Party of Scotland, a forerunner of the Scottish National Party, as well as a member of the Communist Party. MacDiarmid was also an important figure in the Scottish literary revival. The development of MacDiarmid’s use of science begins (more or less) in the collection Scots Unbound, published in 1932; but in general the use of science is peripheral until "Thalamus," published in 1934.