Collected poems and songs of George Campbell Hay (Deòrsa Mac Iain Dheòrsa). Volume 1 / edited by Michel Byrne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hay, George Campbell, Author.

Contributor:

Hay, George Campbell, editor.

Language:

English

Scottish Gaelic

Subjects (All):

Scottish Gaelic poetry--Translations into English.

Scottish Gaelic poetry.

Songs, Scottish Gaelic--Texts.

Songs, Scottish Gaelic.

Scotland--Poetry.

Scotland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (482 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Published for the Lorimer Trust by Edinburgh University Press, [2000]

Language Note:

In English and Scottish Gaelic.

Summary:

The work of a highly significant figure in the renaissance of Gaelic poetry in the twentieth century is gathered together for the first time in one authoritative volume. George Campbell Hay's complete original poems, in Gaelic, Scots, English, French, Italian and Norwegian, are presented chronologically with accompanying English translations and annotations to each poem.This edition also includes a detailed biography, drawing on Hay's own correspondence, which sheds new light on the social, political and literary context of his work; an outline of Hay's main poetic concerns in theme and in form; and some of Hay's own musical settings.Hardback still available in deluxe 2-volume set.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Summary of Editorial Coding

Preface

Acknowledgements

POEMS 1932–1938 see p. xv for explanation of symbols

POEMS 1938–1940

POEMS 1942–1944

POEMS 1944–1946 (i)

POEMS 1944–1946 (ii)

POEMS 1946–1958

POEMS 1960–1961

POEMS 1964–1973

POEMS 1975–1977

POEMS 1978–1979

POEMS 1980–1982

POEMS 1983

Index of Titles

Index of First Lines

Index of Place-names

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474469012

1474469019