Bacach Eachann (1 results)

Original Blue Hardback. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. 1979. lxxxiv, 322pp."The main purpose of this publication is to get the petry if Eachann Bacach into print. In his day (floruit c. 1650) he was highly esteemed as a poet and he also enjoyed some kind of official status as a family poet to the Cheif of Duart in Mull. He is, in fact, one of a group of seventeenth-century Gaelic poets to whom the title AOS-DANA has been attached, implying that while he had official status he is clearly to be distinguished from the professional classical bards of an earlier age . include, . the works of other Maclean poets of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries whose extant work is also so small as to make it unlikely that any of them will be published separately". Previous owner's name to top of ffep. Book and unclipped jacket in excellent condition.