Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems: A Bilingual Anthology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780811206310)

Although the number of Gaelic speakers has declined during the twentieth century, the last forty years have seen an astonishing flowering of Scottish Gaelic poetry, much of it in the modern idiom. This bilingual anthology provides a selection of the best work of poets who have contributed most to that revival--Sorely Maclean, George Campbell Hay, Derick Thomson, Iain Crichton Smith, and Donald MacAulay.

Author: New Directions
ISBN-10: 0811206319
ISBN-13: 9780811206310
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 01/17/1976
Pages: 220
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.64h x 6.12w x 0.91d