{"product_id":"selected-poems-9780811212489","title":"Selected Poems","description":"Hugh 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811212489\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 289\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.69w x 1.11d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/1993 pg. 119\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/30\/1993\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Michael Grieve,Hugh MacDiarmid,Alan Riach","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52537408848053,"sku":"9780811212489","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e2c49798-b2b4-45b5-bdc8-3609ef05967c.jpg?v=1779169420","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/selected-poems-9780811212489","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}