{"product_id":"9781857542516","title":"The Human Face","description":"\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Human Face\u003c\/i\u003e, an impassioned poem-essay in Burns's most celebrated poetic form, Iain Crichton Smith evokes the democratic spirit of Burns in an age starved of tolerance and clarity. This is the poet's most ambitious and risky poem to date. It has the humane scope and sweep of the major poems of MacDiarmid and MacLean, and it is by their measure that Smith must now be appraised. Douglas Dunn wrote in \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e of 'that purity, that touch of originality, which marks poetry at the limits of intuition and imagining.' Robert Nye in \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e declared of the \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e: 'Crichton Smith's net is quite wide, but its meshes are splendidly small, and he is always catching more than he probably intended.'","brand":"Carcanet Press, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47058083447024,"sku":"9781857542516","price":13.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781857542516_p0.gif?v=1763599375","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781857542516","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}