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An Cuilithionn 1939 Sorley Maclean

An Cuilithionn 1939 By Sorley Maclean

An Cuilithionn 1939 by Sorley Maclean

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This new edition of Sorley MacLean's major poem 'An Cuilithionn' ('The Cuillin'), in Gaelic with English translation, includes 400 lines never before published, plus an extended commentary. A further 45 poems from MacLean's papers appear in print for the first time, with facing English versions.

An Cuilithionn 1939 Summary

An Cuilithionn 1939: The Cuillin 1939 and Unpublished Poems by Sorley Maclean

The work of Somhairle MacGill-Eain (Sorley MacLean), the greatest Gaelic poet of the 20th century, has a significance which echoes far beyond the confines of his time, his country and his language. His extended political poem 'An Cuilithionn' ('The Cuillin'), taking the celebrated mountain range in Skye as a symbol for the international revolutionary movement, has hitherto been known only in an abridgement, made fifty years after its initial conception in 1939 on the eve of World War II. Christopher Whyte's edition of the original manuscript includes 400 lines never before published, along with MacLean's own English translation from the time of writing, and an extended commentary. Forty-five other previously unpublished poems by Sorley MacLean also appear here for the first time, with facing English translations.

An Cuilithionn 1939 Reviews

A defiant affirmation of Gaelic cultural pride, it's a political call to arms as well [...] It's hard, all those decades later, to recapture the feeling that all will be well if only the red flag flies over the Black Cuillin. Yet it's difficult too to resist the ingenuous eloquence of a poem which - in a single Neruda-esque sweep - takes in the beauties of the country and the sufferings of its poor and then sets both against a vastly wider historic background. An Cuilithionn proclaims the utter centrality of the utterly parochial. A triumph. - The Scotsman ... it communicates intense intellectual and emotional excitement by way of breathless syntactical structures and tumbling, seemingly inexhaustible rhymes. - The Times Literary Supplement

Table of Contents

Foreword Introduction An Cuilithionn 1939 Coisrigeadh (Dedication) Earrann I (Part I) Earrann II (Part II) Earrann III (Part III) Earrann IV (Part IV) Earrann V (Part V) Earrann VI (Part VI) Earrann VII (Part VII) Commentary Textual Commentary Glossary of Placenames, Personal Names, Historical Events and Abstract Concepts mentioned in 'An Cuilithionn' Unpublished Poems Notes on the unpublished poems Bibliography Index

Additional information

GOR008075933
9781906841034
1906841039
An Cuilithionn 1939: The Cuillin 1939 and Unpublished Poems by Sorley Maclean
Sorley Maclean
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Association for Scottish Literary Studies
2011-06-10
224
Short-listed for Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award 2011
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