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Sorley Maclean: Collected Poems

Sorley MacLean, Christopher Whyte, Emma Dymock

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Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
01 November 2023

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets; Literary studies: poetry & poets

This collected edition of Sorley MacLean brings together published poetry from MacLean's own edited volumes of poetry, poetry previously published in various magazines, literary journals and anthologies, and poetry which has never been published before. The poems are given in their original Gaelic with English translations.

The volume opens with a biographical summary of Maclean's childhood on Raasay, his life at university and war experiences, and examines MacLean's effect on Gaelic and Scottish literature, and his literary, political and philosophical influences, which included Gaelic traditional song, Romanticism and Modernism, as well as Communism and Fascism.

By: Sorley MacLean
Edited by: Christopher Whyte, Emma Dymock
Imprint: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New Edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 45mm
Weight: 733g
ISBN: 9781846976445
ISBN 10: 1846976448
Pages: 576
Publication Date: 01 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sorley MacLeanwas born on the island of Raasay in 1911. He was brought up within a family and community immersed in Gaelic languageand culture, particularly song. He studied English at Edinburgh University from 1929, taking a first-class honours degree. Christopher Whyte is a poet, novelist, translator and critic. Born in Glasgow in 1952 he lived in Italy between graduating from Cambridge in 1973 and returning home to Scotland in 1985. He was Reader in the Department of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University from 1990 until 2005. He lives in Budapest where he is a full-time writer. Emma Dymock works in the Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies Department at the University of Edinburgh.