{"product_id":"selected-poems-9780811212489","title":"Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michael Grieve | Hugh MacDiarmid | Alan Riach\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHugh MacDiarmid's \u003cem\u003eSelected Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e is an invaluable introduction to the work of a major poet who, despite the enthusiasm of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, remains little known in the United States. MacDiarmid (1892-1978), universally recognized as the greatest Scottish poet since Robert Burns and the man responsible for reviving Scots as a literary language, was also the author of an enormous body of poems in English. As the noted critic and translator Eliot Weinberger writes of MacDiarmid's work in his introduction: \"There is nothing like it in modern literature, nothing even close. It is an attempt to return poetry to its original role as repository for all that a culture knows about itself.\" Edited by Alan Riach and the poet's son Michael Grieve, the \u003cem\u003eSelected Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e draws generously from fifty years of work, and includes the complete text of MacDiarmid's 1926 masterpiece, \"A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47614985994391,"sku":"9780811212489","price":1428.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780811212489.webp?v=1775097617","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/selected-poems-9780811212489","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}