ISBN: 9780811212489 - selected poems (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. 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..…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Reprint. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Hardcover. xxv, 289pp. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

hardcover. Zustand: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 289 pp., Introduction by Eliot Weinberger; edited by Alan Riach & Michael Grieve.