{"product_id":"selected-poems-3","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.\"","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833667072205,"sku":"9780811212489","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_fb684ae3-523a-4391-926d-faf0d30098a0.jpg?v=1790892755","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/selected-poems-3","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}