George Campbell Hay (Deòrsa Mac Iain Dheòrsa) - Collected Poems and Songs (Hardcover)

George Campbell Hay (Deòrsa Mac Iain Dheòrsa) has been hailed as an important voice in Scottish literature and as a crucial figure in the renaissance of Gaelic poetry in the twentieth century. Yet with his collections long out of print only a small proportion of his work has been available to the public.This book gathers together for the first time George Campbell Hay s complete original poems in Gaelic Scots English French Italian and Norwegian. Volume I presents all of the poems chronologically with accompanying English translations. Volume II provides annotations to each poem including a full list of sources; a detailed biography heavily reliant 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.The publication of this long-awaited scholarly edition is a landmark in Scottish and Gaelic publishing. The volumes represent a notable addition to the canon of twentieth-century Scottish literature and should permit a full evaluation of Hay s significance.Published as a two-volume set in a deluxe edition in association with the Lorimer Memorial Trust.