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Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems: A Bilingual Anthology - Hardcover

Mishima, Y

 
9780811206310: Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems: A Bilingual Anthology

Synopsis

Although the number of Gaelic speakers has declined during the twentieth century, the last forty years have seen an astonishing flowering of Scottish Gaelic poetry, much of it in the modern idiom. This bilingual anthology provides a selection of the best work of poets who have contributed most to that revival--Sorely Maclean, George Campbell Hay, Derick Thomson, Iain Crichton Smith, and Donald MacAulay.

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From the Back Cover

This indispensable anthology contains selections of the best work by Scotland's most acclaimed modern Gaelic poets: Sorley Maclean, George Campbell Hay, Iain Crichton Smith, Derick Thomson and Donald MacAulay. Designed as much for English readers throughout the world as for readers of Gaelic, the poems are presented with line-for-line translations.

About the Author

Donald MacAulay is Professor of Celtic at the University of Glasgow

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