Selected Poetry

Poetry by Hugh MacDiarmid

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.”

Paperback(published Sep, 01 1993)

ISBN
9780811217811
Price US
22.95

Clothbound(published Sep, 01 1993)

ISBN
9780811212489
Price US
30.95
Page Count
289
Portrait of Hugh MacDiarmid

Hugh MacDiarmid

20th century Scottish poet