34. Hugh MacDiarmid A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
OK, Tony. Providing you don't chuck it out for language reasons, this MacDiarmid masterpiece for all the reasons I've already given. Oh - and add to the list of languages from which there are translations in the body of the work - Italian as well.
There are plenty of the modern paperback around on Amazon etc. but try AbeBooks or such for the lovely little pocket-size hardback published in 1962 in an edition by The 200 Burns Club of Edinburgh with David Daiches nicely judged essay in the Appendix B. Quite an act of homage considering the poet's blistering accounts of Burns Clubs in general!
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