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50 reviewsBrings together all the published poetry from MacLean's lifetime, and work which has never been published before. The poems are given in their original Scottish Gaelic with English translations. Includes a biography from his youth to his influences and his effect on Gaelic and Scottish literature and more broadly.
Sorley MacLean (Somhairle MacGill-Eain, 1911–1996, from Raasay) is generally recognised as the most significant writer in Scottish Gaelic of the 20th century. Yet his work possesses a relevance extending far beyond the bounds of his nation or his language. His 1943 collection Dàin do Eimhir (Poems to Eimhir) brought Gaelic poetry abreast of the modern world with breathtaking and notorious effectiveness. The love sequence at its core shows a young man battling with the conflicting claims of love and duty against the background of a continent hurtling unstoppably into all-out war. His political poem "An Cuilithionn" ("The Cuillin") links the tragedy of the Highland Clearances with a tradition of left-wing radicalism.
His work was characterised by a mixture of reticence and outspokenness. The love sequence could not be published in its entirety while he was alive, and "An Cuilithionn" waited half a century to see print.
This definitive edition includes the love sequence in its fullest form, along with extracts from the 1939 manuscript of "An Cuilithionn", and a generous selection of unpublished poems. MacLean’s own English versions are complemented, where necessary, by versions from the editors. A section of notes highlights historical and traditional references, and two maps and a glossary of place-names are provided.
The notes aren't linked in this e-book version, which is inconvenient. This e-book also re-paginated the original 522 pages into 804 (another e-book version has 608, but is the same material). There is a "new edition" from Birlinn/Polygon (2023, 576 pp., ISBN 9781846976445); it's unclear what differs in it.
