White Leaping Flame / Caoir Gheal Leumraich

Name: White Leaping Flame / Caoir Gheal Leumraich
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Sorley Maclean: Collected Poems

By Sorley MacLean

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This collected edition of Sorley MacLean's poetry presents a comprehensive gathering of his published works, encompassing poems from his edited volumes, various magazines, literary journals, anthologies, and previously unpublished pieces. Each poem is provided in the original Gaelic alongside English translations, offering a rich linguistic experience.

The volume also features a detailed biographical overview, exploring MacLean's upbringing on Raasay, his university life, and wartime experiences. It discusses his profound impact on Gaelic and Scottish literature, highlighting the diverse literary, political, and philosophical influences shaping his work, including Gaelic traditional song, Romanticism, Modernism, Communism, and Fascism.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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Ideal for readers with an interest in Gaelic poetry, Scottish literature, and cultural history, as well as scholars and students exploring 20th-century literary movements and political influences in poetry.

All the poetry of Sorley Maclean, the most significant 20th century Gaelic poet, is gathered together in one volume for the first time. Over 150 poems, some never published before, are given in Gaelic alongside their English translation. Introduced by a biographical essay on his life, influences and impact.

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This collected edition of White Leaping Flame / Caoir Gheal Leumraich by 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. It examines MacLean's effect on Gaelic and Scottish literature, as well as his literary, political and philosophical influences, which included Gaelic traditional song, Romanticism and Modernism, and the ideologies of Communism and Fascism.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781846976445

Publisher: Birlinn General

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 July 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited

Edition: New Edition

Contributors:

Edited by Christopher Whyte
Edited by Emma Dymock

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 45.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 733g

Pages: 576

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry Sorley MacLean

About the Author

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.