Selected Poems (Hardcover)

Michael Grieve

ISBN 10: 0811212483 / ISBN 13: 9780811212489

Published by New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York, 1993

Hardcover. Hugh MacDiarmids Selected Poetry 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 MacDiarmids 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 poets son Michael Grieve, the Selected Poetry draws generously from fifty years of work, and includes the complete text of MacDiarmids 1926 masterpiece, A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780811212489

Synopsis:

Hugh MacDiarmid's Selected Poetry 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 Selected Poetry draws generously from fifty years of work, and includes the complete text of MacDiarmid's 1926 masterpiece, "A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle."

About the Author: Alan Riach was born in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, in 1957. He studied at Cambridge and Glasgow and worked in New Zealand at the University of Waikato from 1986-2000. He is the author of Hugh MacDiarmid's Epic Poetry and Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography. He is currently the Professor of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow, and President of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Selected Poems (Hardcover)
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: new